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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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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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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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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