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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head."
"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."
"A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more so."
"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
"It is not death that alarms me, but dying."
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
"Confidence in others' honesty and sincerity motivates me when I am in difficult situations."
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
"I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of."
"Sorrow is a sickness worse than any other."
"Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness."
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
"To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one let us deprive life of the fear of death."
"The soul that has no established aim loses itself."
"A wise man never loses anything if he has himself."
"The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser."
"There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge."
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