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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
Politician
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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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Evade
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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