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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Friendship
Love
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Communication
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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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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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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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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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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