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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Forget
Wish
Nothing
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Homosexuality
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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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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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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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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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Every movement reveals us.
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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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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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