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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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