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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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