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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

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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
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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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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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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