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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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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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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Death pays all debts.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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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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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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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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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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