Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its …

Michel de Montaigne
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated), p.1327, Delphi Classics
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (195 … ▶
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1991). The essays of Michel de Montaigne, Lane, Allen
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, James Hain Friswell (1866). E … ▶
Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1872). All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, p.730

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated), p.1327, Delphi Classics

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