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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Skepticism
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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