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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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