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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Life
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Subjection
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Dies
Evil
Death
Comprehends
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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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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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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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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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