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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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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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