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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
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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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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