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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
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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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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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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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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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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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