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1 " The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. "
― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays
2 " I quote others only in order the better to express myself. "
3 " Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. "
4 " The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. "
5 " Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. "
6 " L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage. "
7 " Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage. "
8 " D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action. "
9 " Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices. "
10 " Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes. "
11 " Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté. "
12 " Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité "
13 " Why do people respect the package rather than the man? "
14 " It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance. "
15 " Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents. "
16 " All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth. "
17 " Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. "
18 " Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement. "
19 " We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there. "
20 " Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. "