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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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