More quotes by Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
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"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."
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"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."
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"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."
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"[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."
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