Famous quotes containing the word montaigne:
“Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
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