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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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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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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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