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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.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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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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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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