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If i am a man of some reading , i am a man also of no rentitiveness. - Montaigne
Haha feel ya brother

Too many quotes for this space haha

“ there is as much difference from us to ourselves as there is in us to others”
chapter about mans inconsistance.

Ch 56 of prayers
about the reformation and providing the holy Gospel in the common vernacular, Montagne holds that it does not improve mankind’s lot – if they didn’t understand it before why would they understand it now?
I disagree : making it more available can only bring about good. He leaves out the possibility of God working in the reader’s life and understanding.

How silly fashions are - they come they go they return

Folly to follow rules when your opponent does not - the Dumbocrats could learn this

Keep a record of your family’s events! Advised keeping what amounts to a family diary
Because of how time steals memory of those events. Or in my case Alzheimer’s will

Deep thinker, more pragmatic than pure philosophy, very casual even self effacing in some pieces.