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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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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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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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