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Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant writers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. Montaigne had a direct influence on numerous writers of Western literature; his Essais contain some of the most influential essays ever written.

Quotes from Michel de Montaigne

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

—Michel de Montaigne

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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.

—Michel de Montaigne

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

—Michel de Montaigne

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

—Michel de Montaigne

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

—Michel de Montaigne

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

—Michel de Montaigne

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

—Michel de Montaigne

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

—Michel de Montaigne

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