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Why do you judge a man when he is all wrapped up like a parcel? He is only letting us see only such attributes as do not belong to him while hiding the only ones which enable us to judge his real worth… You must judge him not by his finery but by his own self… Measure his height with his stilts off: let him lay aside his wealth and his decorations and show us himself in his shimmy. Is his body functioning properly? Is it quick and healthy? What sort of soul does he have? Is his soul a beautiful one, able, happily endowed with all her functions? Are her riches her won or are they borrowed? Has luck had nothing to do with it? Is she calm, unruffled and contented? That is what we need to know; that is what the immense distances between us men should be judged by.
~ Montaigne, The Complete Essays (1587-88)
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