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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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