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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
Understand
Believe
Men
Libertarianism
Libertarian
Liberty
Least
Belief
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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