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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
Translator
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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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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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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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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