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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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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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Death pays all debts.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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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.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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