<i>Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?</i> How many things served us yesterday for articles o… - Michel de Montaigne

How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?

Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?

How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

"Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him."

-from "By diverse means we arrive at the same end"

We are no nearer heaven on the top of Mount Cenis than at the bottom of the sea; take the distance with your astrolabe. They debase God even to the carnal knowledge of women, to so many times, and so many generations.

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?