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• Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. -- Michel de Montaigne
• Stability itself is nothing else than a more sluggish motion.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
  .. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will....
• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• The conviction of wisdom is the plague of man. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• Accustom him to everything, that he may not be a Sir Paris, a carpet-knight, -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap.
  xxv, Of the Education of Childre...
• Cicero's style bores me. When I have spent an hour reading him and try to recollect what I have extracted, I usually find it nothing but wind.
  -- Michel de Montaigne...
• Asses are made to bear and so are you!