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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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