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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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