"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."
-Michel de Montaigne
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"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.“
-Michel de Montaigne
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"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
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"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
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"I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it."
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"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
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"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
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