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Results of search for Author: Michel de Montaigne - Page 1 of 5 Showing results 1 to 10 of 49 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

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 (1533 - 1592)
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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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 (1533 - 1592)
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Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'experience,' 1580-88
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88

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Results of search for Author: Michel de Montaigne - Page 1 of 5 Showing results 1 to 10 of 49 total quotations found.

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