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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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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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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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