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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
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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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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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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God defend me from myself.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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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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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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