All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other peoples flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I listen with attention to the judgement of all men but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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