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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
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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