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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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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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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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