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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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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