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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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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.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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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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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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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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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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