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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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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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Every movement reveals us.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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