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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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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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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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God defend me from myself.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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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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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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