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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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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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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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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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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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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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