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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Hope
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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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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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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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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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