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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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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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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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