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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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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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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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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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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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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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