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Word Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- .. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted…
- The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
- In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
- Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that…
- I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give…
- The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
- Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does…
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