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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
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Love
Desired
Enjoying
Thirst
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Objects
Enjoy
Else
Nothing
Greedily
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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