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• We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
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• I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xi...
• Few men have been admired by their own domestics.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap ii, Of Repentance...
• Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...
• The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. i, Of Profit and Honesty...
• Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxi, Of Divine Ordinance...
• 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...
• And not to serve for a table-talk. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap.
  iii, The Custom of the Isle of Cea...
• My appetite comes to me while eating. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  ix...