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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
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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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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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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