Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
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We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
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It is an excellent means of gaining the heart of others to submit and trust in it
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But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
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I will follow the good side right to the fire but not into it if I can help it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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