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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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