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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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