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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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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
Michel de Montaigne
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
Michel de Montaigne
Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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