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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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
Malice
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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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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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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