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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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 greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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God defend me from myself.
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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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Habit is a second nature.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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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.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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