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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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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Perfume
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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