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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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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 archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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