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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.

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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