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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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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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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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Habit is a second nature.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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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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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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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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