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“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere."

"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)”
― Montaigne

“There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”
― MONTAIGNE

“The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection

“Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head”
― Michel de Montaigne

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS