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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.

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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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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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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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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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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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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