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• The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

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• The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

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• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

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• The thing I fear most is fear.

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• The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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• The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

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• The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

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• The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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• The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

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• The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

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• The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

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• The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

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• The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

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• Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

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• Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

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

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• One may be humble out of pride.

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• Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

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

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

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Michel de Montaigne (133)

Birth:	28th February, 1533
Death:	13th September, 1592
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher, Writer

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