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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
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
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Philosopher
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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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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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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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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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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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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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