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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.
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
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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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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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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