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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
Essayist
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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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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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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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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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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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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