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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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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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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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