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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
Love
Flatters
Sharpness
Communications
Vigor
Communication
Friendship
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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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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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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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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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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