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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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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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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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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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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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