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Book I, ch. 39

— Michel de Montaigne

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  2. Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
  3. Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
  4. Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
  5. Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
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  7. He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
  8. He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

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