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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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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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