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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
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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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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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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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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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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