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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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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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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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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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