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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
Michel de Montaigne
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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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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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