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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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
Death
Else
Nothing
Philosophize
Prepare
Oneself
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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