Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease.... It craves a steep and thorny path.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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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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It is good to rub and polish your mind against the minds of others.
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We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.
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It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject we do nothing but write glosses about each other.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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