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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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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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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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