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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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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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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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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