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We have power over nothing except our will.
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
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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Habit is a second nature.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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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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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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