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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

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
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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Death pays all debts.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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My art and profession is to live.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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