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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Every movement reveals us.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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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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