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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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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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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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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