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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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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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