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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
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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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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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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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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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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