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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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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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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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