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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
Michel de Montaigne
Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne
A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
Michel de Montaigne
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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