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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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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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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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I do not teach. I relate.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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