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• And not to serve for a table-talk. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap.
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• For a desperate disease a desperate cure. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap.
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• I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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• Habit is a second nature. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. x
• Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxi, Of Divine Ordinance...
• We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
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• Like rowers, who advance backward. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
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• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxx, Of Cannibal...
• Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...