Quote by Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

• Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

• When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

• Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

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

• He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.