I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, th…

Michel de Montaigne
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1907). The Essays
To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't. ✨ Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays.
To philosophize is to doubt. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.251, Stanford University Press
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

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