Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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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
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.
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But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
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Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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