Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Property
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.
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.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.
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