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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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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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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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