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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
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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