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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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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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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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