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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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