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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
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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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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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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