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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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