Michel de Montaigne quotes
1533–1592 · Château de Montaigne, near Bordeaux, France
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- Essays of Michel de Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, 1877 · Book III, chapter 11, Of Cripples
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- Essays of Michel de Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, 1877 · Book I, chapter 25, Of the Education of Children
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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
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- Essays of Michel de Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, 1877 · Book II, chapter 12, Apology for Raimond Sebond
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- Essays of Michel de Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, 1877 · Book I, chapter 31, That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances
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- Essays of Michel de Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, 1877 · Book I, chapter 19, That to study philosophy is to learn to die
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The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.
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- Essays of Michel de Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, 1877 · Book I, chapter 38, Of Solitude
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- Translated by Charles Cotton; edited and revised by William Carew Hazlitt (London, 1877); Project Gutenberg eBook #3600