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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
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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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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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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Every movement reveals us.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
Michel de Montaigne
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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