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• The conviction of wisdom is the plague of man. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• A strong memory is generally coupled with infirm judgment.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• My reason is not framed to bend or stoop; my knees are. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• Stability itself is nothing else than a more sluggish motion.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne...
• It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne...
• The thing in the world I am most of afraid of is fear, and with good reason, that passion alone in the trouble of it exceeding other accidents.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...