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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
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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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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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My trade and art is to live.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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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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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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