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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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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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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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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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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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