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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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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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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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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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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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