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"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."
- Michel de Montaigne. |
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"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
- Michel de Montaigne, More quotation on Books. |
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"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved."
- Michel de Montaigne. |
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"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
- Michel de Montaigne. |
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"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying."
- Michel de Montaigne. |
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"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself."
- Michel de Montaigne. |
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"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."
- Michel de Montaigne, More quotation on Education. |
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"No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately."
- 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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"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 no bring forth in the agitation."
- Michel de Montaigne. |