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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

 French Philosopher

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

 

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

 Discipline

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

 Goals

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

 Grammar

There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

 Diversity

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

 French Philosopher

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne