I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
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But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
My reason is not framed to bend or stoop my knees are.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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