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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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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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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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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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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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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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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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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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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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