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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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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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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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