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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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