Rien n'imprime si vivement quelque chose à notre souvenance… - Michel de Montaigne

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Rien n'imprime si vivement quelque chose à notre souvenance que le désir de l'oublier.

Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, lord of the manor of Montaigne, Dordogne) (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was an influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay.

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Alternative Names: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne • Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha • Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha

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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

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

Rien n'imprime si vivement quelque chose à notre souvenance que le désir de l'oublier. - Michel de Montaigne

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