It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor… - Michel de Montaigne

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It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

Michel de Montaigne

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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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No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

It would be better to have no laws at all than to have them in such profusion as we do.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

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