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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Inconvenience
Stealing
Away
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Death pays all debts.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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