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• The conviction of wisdom is the plague of man. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• 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)...
• I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne...
• Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it. -- Michel De Montaigne
• Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
  .. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will....
• 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)...