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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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