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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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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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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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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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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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