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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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Habit is a second nature.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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