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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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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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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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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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