Michel de Montaigne Quote

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"Je dis la vérité, pas autant que je le voudrais, mais autant que j'ose."

Translations

“We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”

Michel de Montaigne

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself”

“I study myself more than any other subject, that is my metaphysics, that is my physics”

“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak”

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