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New Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
- I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
- Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new…
- Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language,…
- Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and…
- Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
- The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
- Unless the knowledge gained from experience is reconditioned in each new situation, it is a rigid and a dangerous guide.
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