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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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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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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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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.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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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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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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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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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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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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