If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity … - Michel de Montaigne

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Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.

Michel de Montaigne

If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.

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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.

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