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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Liberty
Least
Belief
Understand
Believe
Men
Libertarianism
Libertarian
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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