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QuoteWorld :: Men :: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Quotes by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne in Men category:
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"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." 5.0000 average rating  
"The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself."  
"He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live." 5.0000 average rating  
"How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today."  
"The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance." 5.0000 average rating  
"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." 5.0000 average rating  
"There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline." 3.0000 average rating  
"Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen." 5.0000 average rating  
"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can."  
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."  
 




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