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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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God defend me from myself.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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