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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
Michel de Montaigne
He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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