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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I." -
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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Top 5 quotes from Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
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"He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live."
"Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying."
"The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance."
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"May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery."
"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
"Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. "
"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake."
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