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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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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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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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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek 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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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Death pays all debts.
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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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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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