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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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