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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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