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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
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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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He loves little who loves by rule.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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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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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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