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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Goods
Easily
Poverty
Attitude
Impossible
Poor
Soul
Irreparable
Cured
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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