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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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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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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 study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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