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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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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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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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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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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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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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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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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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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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