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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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