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Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne (/mɒnˈteɪn/; French: [miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ]; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with serious intellectual insight; his massive volume Essais contains some of the most influential essays ever written.

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The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene.

Continual, Moon, State, States, Wisdom

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

Ease, Demand, Path, Shuns, Rough, Demands

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray. . . I am myself the matter of my book.

Book, Fashion, Matter, Ordinary, Simple

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Shame, Speak, Think, Thinking

Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

Goal, Goals, Happiness, Meaningful, Toward, Working

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Funny, Death, Jobs, Worry, Tell, Job

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

Doe, Functions, Men, Powers, Snow, Weight

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

Cobblers, Mould, Same, Soul, Souls

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Celibacy, Married, Might, Wisdom

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

Inspirational, Character, Soul, Lack, Irreplaceable, Easily

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

Evil, Law Of Attraction, Life, Place, Positive

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

Build, Continuous, Death, Life, Life Is, Our Lives

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Honor, Persons, Loses, Chooses, Person, Lose

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

Blow, Blows, Cowardice, Fortune, Holes, Part

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

Corrupted, Flattery, Kings, Sort, Vermin

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.

Lust, Man, Men, Quiet, Solitude, Whatsoever

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Friendship, Ifs, Love, Marriage, Resembles

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

Wisdom, Powerful, Emotional, Suffers, Already, Fears

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