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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
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Nothing
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
Michel de Montaigne
All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne
We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
Michel de Montaigne
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
Michel de Montaigne
... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
Michel de Montaigne
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
Michel de Montaigne
We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
Michel de Montaigne
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.
Michel de Montaigne
Saying is one thing and doing is another
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