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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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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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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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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