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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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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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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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