I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to… - Michel de Montaigne

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I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to patch it on to me than to distort the thread of my argument to go in search of one.

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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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.

Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

the property of Man’s wit to act readily and quickly, while the property of the judgement is to be slow and poised.

I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to patch it on to me than to distort the thread of my argument to go in search of one. - Michel de Montaigne

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