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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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
Jurist
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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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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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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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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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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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