"Perhaps it is not without reason that we……" — Michel de Montaigne

"Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t."

— Michel de Montaigne

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