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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
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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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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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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