Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
More Quotes from Michel Eyquem de Montaigne:
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery
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My art and profession is to live.
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Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom and poisons itself therewith
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It is an excellent means of gaining the heart of others to submit and trust in it
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He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
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