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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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
Thirst
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Objects
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Greedily
Love
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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God defend me from myself.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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