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• Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.
  -- "Essays" Bk 1, Ch 39 by Michel Eyquen Montaigne...
• The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxii, Of Custom...
• Habit is a second nature. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. x
• Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap....
• 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...
• 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...
• T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
  The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from u...
• I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. Michel de Montaigne
• No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...