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Quotes by Michel De Montaigne
- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
- I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
- I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
- If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
- In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
- It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
- It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
- It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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