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• We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?

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  Death, Grief, Evil

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.360

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• La mayor parte de los problemas del mundo se deben a cuestiones gramaticales.

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  World, Problem, Trouble

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• A man may be humble through vainglory.

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  Humble, Men, May

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.479, Stanford University Press

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• Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

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  Education, Children, Freedom

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.123, Stanford University Press

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• Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

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  Comando

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• Es muy miserable un padre que no tiene otro asidero en el afecto de sus hijos que la necesidad que ellos tienen de su asistencia, si es que eso puede llamarse afecto.

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  Hijos, padre, progenitor

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). "Obras completas Delphi de Michel de Montaigne (Ilustradas)", p.623, Delphi Classics.

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• As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

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  Life, Self, Grants

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

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• Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

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  God, Dream, Knowledge

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• If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

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  Men, Different, Portraiture

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• Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

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  Use, Worship, Found

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.697, Xist Publishing

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• Sócrates... hizo bajar a la sabiduría humana del cielo, donde perdía el tiempo, y la devolvió al hombre.... Es imposible retroceder más y más abajo. Hizo un gran favor a la naturaleza humana mostrando lo mucho que puede hacer por sí misma.

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  Hombres, Cielo, Favores

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• Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

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  Hands, Promise, Variation

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• Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to sell to the crowd for gain; and some there are, and not the worst, who seek no other profit than to look at the show and see how and why everything is done; spectators of the life of other people in order to judge and regulate their own.

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  Life, Order, Games

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• Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.

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  Hope, Children, Thinking

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• And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

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  Shoulders, New Words

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.121

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• Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

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  Stubborn, Serious, Heat

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• 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

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  Pain, Men, May

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

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  Play, Laughing, Stranger

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• Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

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  Country, Giving, Titles

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.228, 谷月社

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• ¡Qué cosa tan maravillosa es que la gota de semilla, de la cual somos producidos, lleve en sí misma las impresiones, no sólo de la forma corporal, sino de los pensamientos e inclinaciones de nuestros padres!

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  Hijos, Padre, Herencia

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). "Los ensayos"

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• Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

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  Men, Understanding, Lost

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). "Los ensayos de Michel de Montaigne", Lane, Allen

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• Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

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  Ordinary, Taste, Mundane

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “The Essays of Montaigne”, p.425

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• Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

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  Substance, Taste, Shame

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• Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

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  Glory, Repose

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

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  Inward, Looks, Busy

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