Ocupation: Writer
Life: February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592
Birthday: February 28
Death: September 13
It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.
source: Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”
topic: Hate, Thinking, Down And, Accepting Things