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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
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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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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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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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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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