Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.


Selected Essays (ed. 1943)

Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they...

Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they...

Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they...

Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they...