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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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