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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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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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