"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the……" — Michel de Montaigne
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against…
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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
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Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care…
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing…
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Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and…
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When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.
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The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and…
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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets…
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A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through…
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When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the…
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Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey…
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