I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbar… - Michel de Montaigne
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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.
I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray...I am myself the matter of my book.
"Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb." — Seneca, Hippolytus, act ii. scene 3.] A
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