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• 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...
• 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....
• 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...
• Apollo said that every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
  -- 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxx, Of Cannibal...