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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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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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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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