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• Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xi...
• Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xii...
• 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...
• And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. v...
• It happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. v...
• I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
  -- 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.
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• For a desperate disease a desperate cure. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap.
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• Habit is a second nature. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. x