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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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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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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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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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