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Michel de Montaigne

"There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."

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"There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."

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"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."

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"One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive " till then power of God will remain."

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"All humans are rogues. Cured only by death."

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"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"

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"Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality."

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"Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn't fail to devastate in its time."

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"It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life?Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?"

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"The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character."

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"I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less."

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"Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject."
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"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
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"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."
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"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
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"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."
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"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
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"Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own."
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"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
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"The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage."
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"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."
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