I do not believe from what I have been told about this people that there is anything barbarous or savage about them except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

I do not believe from what I have been told about this people that there is anything barbarous or savage about them except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
Michel De Montaigne

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Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.
- Michel De Montaigne

I do not believe from what I have been told about this people that there is anything barbarous or savage about them except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits. Michel De Montaigne

I do not believe from what I have been told about this people that there is anything barbarous or savage about them except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
Michel De Montaigne