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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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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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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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My trade and art is to live.
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