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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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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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