Michel de Montaigne Quote

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"Un homme sage voit autant qu'il doit, non autant qu'il peut"

Translations

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

Michel de Montaigne

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself”

“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear”

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

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