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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Habit is a second nature.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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