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Michel de Montaigne Quotes: Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.
         

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.


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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.



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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.



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