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• I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

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• When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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• Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

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• I tell the truth, not as much as I would but as much as I dare – and I dare more and more as I grow older.

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• Don’t be ashamed to say what your are not ashamed to think.

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• The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live life in purpose.

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• Wonder is the foundation, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

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• Marriage can be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out.

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• To make judgements on things that are great and high, a soul of the same stature is needed, otherwise we ascribe to them the vices which belong to us.

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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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• A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always believed, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

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• It should be noted that children’s games are not merely games; one should regard them as their most serious activities.

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• One be humble out of pride.

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• Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

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• Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.

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• All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.

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• I quote others only to better express myself.

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• A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

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• Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

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• If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

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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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