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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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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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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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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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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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