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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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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