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

Michel de Montaigne
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1603). Essayes, p.246
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. ✨ Essais bk. 3, ch. 2 (1580)
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumb … ▶
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. ✨ Michel de Montaigne Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Mic … ▶

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