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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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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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