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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre, and commonly thought of as the father of modern skepticism.

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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

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Michel de Montaigne

My trade and art is to live.

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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

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