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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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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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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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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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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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