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Michel de Montaigne The Complete Essays

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Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

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Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l’homme quelque instinct à l’inhumanité

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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

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Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l’extreme de tous les vices.

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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

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