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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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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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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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