Michel de Montaigne
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French essayist and philosopher (1533 to 1592); mayor of Bordeaux; author of the Essays, in three books.
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ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Learning to die is learning to be free; whoever has learned to die has unlearned servitude (opens korrents.com)
“Where death waits for us is uncertain; let us look for him everywhere. The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve.”
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People call barbarous whatever is not customary in their own country (opens korrents.com)
“Now, to return to my subject, I find that there is nothing barbarous and savage in this nation, by anything that I can gather, excepting, that every one gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in…”
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The greatest thing in the world is for a person to know that they belong to themselves (opens korrents.com)
“The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.”
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Learning to die is learning to be free; whoever has learned to die has unlearned servitude (opens korrents.com)