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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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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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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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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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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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