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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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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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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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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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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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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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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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