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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
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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 put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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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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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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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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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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