They make me hate things that are likely, when they would impose them upon me as infallible.
Quotes from Essais — Michel de Montaigne
1533–1592 France
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Essais (1571)
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?
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God's justice and His power are inseparable; 'tis in vain we invoke His power in an unjust cause.
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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
Essais (1571)
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
Essais (1571)
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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A little of all things, but nothing of everything, after the French manner.
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He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
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How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation!
Essais (1571)
A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Few men have been admired by their own households.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Essais (1571)
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