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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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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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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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