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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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 a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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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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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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