The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.
Michel de MontaigneIt is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.
Michel de MontaigneLife itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.
Michel de MontaigneSuch as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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