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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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