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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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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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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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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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