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• Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xii, Apology for Raimond Sebond...
• He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xii, Apology for Raimond Sebond...
• Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xii, Apology for Raimond Sebond...
• The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould.
  ... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes....
• Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do no
  others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe....
• T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xii, Apology for Raimond Sebond...
• When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xii, Apology for Raimond Sebond...
• Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest i
  he earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me...
• To which we may add this other Aristotelian consideration, that he who confers a benefit on any one loves him better than he is beloved by him again.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. viii, Of the Affections of Fathe...