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We drink customs with our milk
“But the principal effect of the power of custom is to seize and ensnare us in such a way that it is hardly within our power to get ourselves back out of its grip and return into ourselves to reflect and reason about its ordinances. In truth, because we drink them with our milk from…
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Glory of Sallust
“Some urge me to write the events of my time, believing that I see them with a view less distorted by passion than another man’s, and from closer, because of the access that fortune has given me to the heads of different parties. What they forget is that even for all the glory of Sallust,…
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Opinion not things
“Men, says an old Greek maxim, are tormented by the opinions they have of things, not by the things themselves.” I.14 “That the taste of good and evil depends in large part on the opinion we have of them” (p. 39) Note that Montaigne troubles this quote, tests it, seems to want to but does…
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