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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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