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"I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures."

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Pleasure And Pain

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About Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne was a French philosopher and essayist who popularized the literary essay as a form. His Essays are a foundational work in modern personal and skeptical writing.

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