I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. - Michel de Montaigne

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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

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About Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, lord of the manor of Montaigne, Dordogne) (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was an influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay.

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Alternative Names: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne • Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha • Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Voltaire Friedrich Nietzsche Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Hazlitt Ralph Waldo Emerson

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