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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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