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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Homosexuality
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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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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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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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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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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