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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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