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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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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Every movement reveals us.
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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.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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