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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
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Suffering
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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