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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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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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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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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