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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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