Michel de Montaigne once noted that his goal in life was to travel around and find a place where he could spend a full happy year, undisturbed and filled with fun.

法国哲人蒙田曾这样写道：“我愿意走遍天涯海角去寻找一个地方，在那里度过饶有趣味、充满快乐的一年安静时光，因为我的人生目的就是要过一种舒适的生活。”

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But when I am discouraged or downcast I need only fling open the door of my closet, and there, hidden everything else, hangs the mantle of Michel DE Montaigne, smelling slightly of camphor.

不过遇到我心情沮丧或郁郁不快时，我只需要把衣橱的门一下拉开；那里藏在所有别的衣服后面，挂着米歇尔·德蒙田的披风，微微地散发出樟脑的气息。

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But when I am discouraged or downcast I need only fling open the door of my closet, and there, hidden behind everything else, hangs the mantle of Michel DE Montaigne, smelling slightly of camphor.

不过在我心灰意懒，怅然若失之际，我便轻轻打开衣橱的门，在那精彩纷呈的里面，就藏着米歇尔•德•蒙田的披风，还微微地散发出樟脑的气息呢。

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It is not true, as Michel de Montaigne maintained, that the profit of one man is the damage of another.

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The French essayist Michel de Montaigne was brought up speaking Latin as his first language and as a boy read Ovid's Metamorphoses for fun.

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