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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Mind
Growing
Decay
Never
Face
Moves
Men
Age
Rarely
Faces
Souls
Moving
Smell
Imprints
Doe
Towards
Musty
Together
Perfection
Wrinkles
Soul
Seen
Sour
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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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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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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