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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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