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Michel de Montaigne Biography:
Was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography — and his massive volume "Essais" (translated literally as "Attempts") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written.
Date of Birth: February 28, 1533.
Died on: September 13, 1592 at 59 years.
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We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offe.

Category: Criticism

Author: Michel de Montaigne

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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Category: Life

Author: Michel de Montaigne

I quote others in order to better express myself.

Category: Quotation

Author: Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Category: Marriage

Author: Michel de Montaigne

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Category: Death

Author: Michel de Montaigne

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Category: Ignorance

Author: Michel de Montaigne

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Category: Ambition

Author: Michel de Montaigne

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Category: Suffering

Author: Michel de Montaigne

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Category: Marriage

Author: Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Category: Belief

Author: Michel de Montaigne

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