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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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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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