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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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