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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
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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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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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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