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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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