Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.
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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery
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Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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