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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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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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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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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 hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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