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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.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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