I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent.…

Michel de Montaigne
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1893). The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1912*). The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. ✨ Michel De Montaigne, James B Atkinson, David Sices (2012). Selected Essays: With La Boetie's Discourse on Vol … ▶
Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something? ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1979). Essays
The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

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