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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.

— Michel de Montaigne Attributed

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They make me hate things that are likely, when they would impose them upon me as infallible.

Essais (1571)

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?

Essais (1571)

God's justice and His power are inseparable; 'tis in vain we invoke His power in an unjust cause.

Essais (1571)

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Essais (1571)

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