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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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My trade and art is to live.
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