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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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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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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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