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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
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Friendship
Love
Flatters
Sharpness
Communications
Vigor
Communication

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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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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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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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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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