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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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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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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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