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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
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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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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Every movement reveals us.
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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