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• No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

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• My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.

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• There is no end to our researches; our end is in the other world.

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• We are all wind throughout.

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• We wake sleeping, and sleep waking.

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• Man is quite insane. He wouldn’t know how to make a maggot, and he makes Gods by the dozen.

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• When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

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• Fame and tranquillity are two things that can’t live under the same roof.

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• The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.

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• We must reserve a backshop, wholly our own and entirely free, wherein to settle our true liberty, our principle solitude and retreat.

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• Now the end, I take it, is all one, to live at more leisure and at one’s ease.

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• I would like death to come to me while I am planting cabbages, caring little for death and even less for the imperfection of my garden.

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• We should always be booted and spurred, and ready to go.

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• Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

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  A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

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• Marriage happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

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  The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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• We need but little learning to live happily.

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• The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

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• There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

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Michel de Montaigne (133)

Birth:	28th February, 1533
Death:	13th September, 1592
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher, Writer

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