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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

«I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself»
«There is no man so good that if he place all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life»
«If the world complains that I speak too much about myself, I complain that the world does not so much as think of itself at all»
«A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it»
«Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself»
«Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest»
«Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t»
«I do not teach, I relate»
«It is not our follies that make me laugh it is our sapiences»
«We are all of us richer than we think we are»