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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
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French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
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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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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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