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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
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Glory
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Indigence
Health
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Opinion
Possessor
Beauty
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Pleasure
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Riches
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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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 a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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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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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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