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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
Autobiographer
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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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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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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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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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