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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Obsession
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Genius
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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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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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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