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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
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Enjoying
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Objects
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Greedily
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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Death pays all debts.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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