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Michel De Montaigne Quotes

"On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom""There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees""The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them""Lend yourself to others but give yourself to yourself""He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak""There is no passion so contagious as that of fear""The thing I fear most is fear""The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself""I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.""Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.""The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.""A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.""My trade and my art is to live.""Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.""There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.""The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser."