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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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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Cured
Goods
Easily
Poverty
Attitude
Impossible
Poor
Soul
Irreparable
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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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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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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