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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Crazy, Men
'Essais' (1580) bk. 2, ch. 12

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Lying, Men

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Theory, Wisest

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Crazy, Men
"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Dream, Knowledge

God sends the cold according to the coat.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Coats, Cold

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Honor, Religion
Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Prayer, Men
Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.68, Courier Corporation

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

Michel de Montaigne
God, Heart, Men

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Mean, Men
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.457, Stanford University Press

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
God, Confidence, Men
Michel de Montaigne (1912*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Knowledge, Secret

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