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Death pays all debts.
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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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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