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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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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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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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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