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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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