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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
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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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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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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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