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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
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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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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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