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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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