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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
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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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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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
Michel de Montaigne
We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
Michel de Montaigne
The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Michel de Montaigne
A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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