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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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My art and profession is to live.
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Habit is a second nature.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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