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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 soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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