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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

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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
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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Death pays all debts.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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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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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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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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