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1580Château de Montaigne, France

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

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You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics; that is my physics.

Every man carries the entire form of the human condition within him.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Château de Montaigne, France