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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.
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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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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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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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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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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