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It needs courage to be afraid.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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