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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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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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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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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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