de Montaigne, Michel (Michel de Montaigne)

Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
-- Michel de Montaigne

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
-- Michel de Montaigne

It is a dangerous and serious presumption, and argues an absurd temerity, to condemn what we do not understand.

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-- Michel de Montaigne

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
-- Michel de Montaigne


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