“Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.”
—Michel de Montaigne, essayist (28 Feb 1533-1592).
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Michel De Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne: Pleasures and pains
“I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.” -Michel de Montaigne.
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Michel De Montaigne: Firm footing
“If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.” -Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne: Unceasingly
“We, and our judgment, and all mortal things go on flowing and rolling unceasingly. Thus nothing certain can be established about one thing by another, both the judging and the judged being in continual change and motion.” —Michel de Montaigne.
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Michel de Montaigne: Memory and lying
“He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.”
—Michel de Montaigne.
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Michel de Montaigne: Virtue
Michel de Montaigne. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. ”
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Michel de Montaigne: Belief
Michel de Montaigne wrote of his condition that, “I am at grips with the worst of all maladies, the most sudden, the most painful, the most mortal and the most irremediable. I have already experienced five or six very long and painful bouts of it.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. –Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
