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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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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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