Quote #107
Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
More from Michel de Montaigne
- Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
- Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
- No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
- No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
- My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
- Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
- Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.