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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.

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
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