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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
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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