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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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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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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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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