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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
Essayist
French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Health
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Riches
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Every movement reveals us.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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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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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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