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• Dare to look up to God and say, "Make use of me for the future as Thou wilt.
  I am of the same mind; I am one with Thee. I refuse nothing which seems good to Thee....
• How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation!
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xvi, Of Glory...
• Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.
  -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- The Passport, The Hotel at Pari...
• Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that mayest understand.
  -- St. Augustine...
• 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...
• My appetite comes to me while eating. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  ix...
• All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. v...
• O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Act i, Sc. 3...
• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pelopida...