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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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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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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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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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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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