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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
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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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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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