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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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