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• Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xi...
• What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. viii...
• Like rowers, who advance backward. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  i, Of Profit and Honesty...
• For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...
• The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all
  they will chew our meat for us. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap....
• All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. ii, Of Sorrow...
• Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xl, Of Good and Evil...
• I, who have so much and so universally adored this [greek], "excellent mediocrity," -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  xiii...
• Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...