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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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