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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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