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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.

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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
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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