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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Books are the best provision I have found for this human journey.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Children's games are not just games, but their most serious activities.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Death does not concern you, neither alive nor dead: alive, because you are; dead, because you are no more.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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It is necessary to lend oneself to others, but to give oneself only to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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I only quote others in order to express my thoughts better.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Nothing seems so true that it cannot seem false.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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No benefit is ever achieved without harming another.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Laws maintain their credit not because they are just, but because they are laws.

Just as the eyes are made for astronomy, the ears are made for perceiving the movements of harmony.

It is not in men, but in the things themselves, that we must seek the truth.