Tag: Michel de Montaigne
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
Michel de Montaigne
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de Montaigne
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de Montaigne
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Michel de Montaigne
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Michel de Montaigne