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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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