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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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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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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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