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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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