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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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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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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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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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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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