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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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