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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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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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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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