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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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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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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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