I listen with attention to the judgement of all men but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.
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We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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