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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
Nothing
Philosophize
Prepare
Oneself
Death
Else
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I am myself the matter of my book.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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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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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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