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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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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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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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