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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Everywhere
Purpose
Lost
Soul
Life
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Nowhere
Fixed
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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My art and profession is to live.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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