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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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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Repress
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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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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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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