Michel de Montaigne quotes

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Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their ...
What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity o ...
Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not b ...
We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague i ...
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales ...
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outco ...
To judge the appearances we receive of things, we should need a judicatory instrument; to verify this instrument, we should need a ...
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, has ...
[One cannot express lack of knowledge in affirmative language.] This idea is more firmly grasped in the form of interrogation: "Wh ...
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