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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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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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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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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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