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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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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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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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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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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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