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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#firmly #know #least #nothing

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#despise #infirmities #most #our #savage

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#attire #behavior #even #frame #grace

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#condition #every #every man #human #human condition

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#children #deemed #most #noted #plays

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fools #fortune #lucky #made #make

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#criminal #how #i #many #more

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fables #faith #held #how #many

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#except #i #i do #mind #minds

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#knowledge #men #other #we cannot #wisdom