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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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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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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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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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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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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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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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