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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Of all the benefits that virtue brings us, one of the greatest is the contempt for death.

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Whoever wished that man did not know pain, would at the same time avoid the knowledge of pleasure and reduce man himself to nothing.

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He who does not live in some way for others, also does not live for himself.

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We are very concerned with being good people according to God's law; we would not know how to be so according to ourselves.

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Michel de Montaigne

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The curiosity to know things has been given to men as a punishment

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Our desire despises and abandons what we have in order to chase after what we do not have.

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Life is not in itself neither good nor bad, but the place of good or bad, depending on whether man practices one or the other.

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The one who, while angry, imposes a punishment, does not correct, but seeks revenge.

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Nobody fares badly for a long time without being at fault themselves.

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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

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Michel de Montaigne

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I reject all violence in the education of a tender soul being trained for honor and freedom.

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No man is so good that, when exposed to the actions of the law, he would not be condemned to the gallows at least ten times.

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