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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Nothing
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Thing
Intensely
Homosexuality
Sexuality
Memory
Memories
Forget
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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My art and profession is to live.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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