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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.
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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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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Death pays all debts.
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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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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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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