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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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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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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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