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Michel de Montaigne quotes

French essayist (1533-1592) who made the personal essay a form.

• In truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.

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• I always find superfluity superfluous, and observe a kind of trouble even in abundance itself.

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• The confession of ignorance is one of the finest and surest testimonies of judgment that I know.

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• Of all the infirmities we have, 'tis the most barbarous to despise our being.

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• There is nothing so fine and legitimate as well and duly to play the man.

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• There is nothing to which nature seems so much to have inclined us, as to society.

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• If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

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• We were halves throughout, and to that degree, that methinks, by outliving him, I defraud him of his part.

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