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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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