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• 41.

  Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

  Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Apology For Raymond Sebond," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. II, ch. 12, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).
  
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• 42.

  The mind that has no fixed goal loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.

  Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of Idleness," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 8, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).
• 43.

  We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

  Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "On Some Verses of Virgil," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. III, ch. 5, Abel Langelier, Paris (1588).
  
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• 44.

  I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

  Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Apology For Raymond Sebond," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. II, ch. 12, Abel Langelier, Paris (1595).
• 45.

  Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

  Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "By diverse means we arrive at the same end," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 1, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).
• 46.

  I hate your people that will sooner tolerate a soul than a gown that is awry, and will judge a man by his bow, his bearing, and his boots.

  Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of Pedantry," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 25, Abel Langelier, Paris (1588).
  
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• 47.

  I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

  Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "On Some Verses of Virgil," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. III, ch. 5, Abel Langelier, Paris (1588).
  
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• 48.

  We take the opinions and the knowledge of others into our keeping, and that is all. We must make them our own.

  Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of Pedantry," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 25, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).
• 49.

  I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

  Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "On Some Verses of Virgil," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. III, ch. 5, Abel Langelier, Paris (1588).
  
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• 50.

  When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn't amusing herself with me more than I with her.

  Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. Essays, bk. 2, ch. 12 (1595).
  
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