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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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
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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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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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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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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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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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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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