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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Beauty
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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