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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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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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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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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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