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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
Michel de Montaigne
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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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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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He loves little who loves by rule.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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