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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Whatever
Relish
Happy
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Appreciation
Possession
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Fortune
Palate
Benefits
Fruition
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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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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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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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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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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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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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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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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 a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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