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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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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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