The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.


Complete Essays (ed. Stanford University Press, 1958) - ISBN: 9780804704861

Michel de Montaigne Quotes

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. ...

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. ...

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. ...

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. ...