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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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
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Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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