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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
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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