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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
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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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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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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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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