This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do …

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If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1991). The essays of Michel de Montaigne, … ▶
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1907). The Essays
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2015). Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays, p.282, 谷月社
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. ✨ Michel De Montaigne, James B Atkinson, David Sices (2012). Selected Essays: With La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, p.39, Hackett … ▶
Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not … ▶

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