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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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Nowhere
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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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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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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