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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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