Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. ~Michel de Montaigne
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. ~Michel de Montaigne
Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it. ~Michel de Montaigne
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. ~Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ~Michel de Montaigne
To philosophize is to doubt. ~Michel de Montaigne
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. ~Michel de Montaigne
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ~Michel de Montaigne
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