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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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