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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

«Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.»
«All general judgments are loose and imperfect»
«I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man»
«There is an ABC ignorance which precedes knowledge and a doctoral ignorance which comes after it»
«The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.»
«The fantasies of music are governed by art, mine by chance»
«I quote others only in order the better to express myself.»
«As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture, and lamps with too much oil, so is the active part of the understanding with too much study»
«The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.»
«He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.»