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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
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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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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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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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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