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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.
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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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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