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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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Death pays all debts.
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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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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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