Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Religion
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Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.
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When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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