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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Satiety
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Thirsty
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Leisure
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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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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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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