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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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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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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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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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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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