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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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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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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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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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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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