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“We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?”

Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Book:Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings

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Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings

This compilation includes Montaigne's seminal work, 'Essays', which is a series of reflections on various subjects, including travel, friendship, and the pursuit of knowledge. It also features selected writings that showcase his intellectual depth and literary style. more

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne was a French Renaissance philosopher, essayist, and writer. He is considered one of the most significant figures in the history of the essay. Montaigne's work, particularly his book 'Essays', has been influential in the development of modern prose. more

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Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.”

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Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.”

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Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.”

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Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.”

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Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.”

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Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.”

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Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays