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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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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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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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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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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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