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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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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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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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I do not teach. I relate.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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