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When we have got it, we want something else.
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
Satisfaction
Else
Something
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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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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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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God defend me from myself.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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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 some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
Michel de Montaigne
Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
Michel de Montaigne
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
Michel de Montaigne
But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
Michel de Montaigne
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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