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As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.
(Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of Experience," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. III, ch. 13, Abel Langelier, Paris (1588).)
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Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.
(Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of the punishment of cowardice," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 16, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).)
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When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts have been dwelling elsewhere, I bring them back to the walk, to the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, and to me.
(Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of Experience," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. III, ch. 13, Abel Langelier, Paris (1588).)
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There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.
(Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of the Resemblance of Children to Fathers," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. II, ch. 37, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).)
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second—well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
(Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of the Resemblance of Children to Fathers," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. II, ch. 37, Abel Langelier, Paris (1595).)
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On the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump.
(Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of Experience," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. III, ch. 13, Abel Langelier, Paris (1595).)
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Socrates was asked where he was from. He replied not "Athens," but "The world."
(Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of the Education of Children," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 26, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).)
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