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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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