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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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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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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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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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