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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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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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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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