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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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Habit is a second nature.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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