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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 whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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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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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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