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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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My trade and art is to live.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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