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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
Belief
Understand
Believe
Men
Libertarianism
Libertarian
Liberty
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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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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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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