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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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