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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

Michel de Montaigne
Business, People, Society

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Society, World

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

Michel de Montaigne
Society, Substance, Body
Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Law, Society
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays:”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Michel de Montaigne
Truth, Society, Corruption
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.505, Stanford University Press

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