Famous Quotes | These examples, though foreign...

These examples, though foreign to us, are not strange, if we consider, as our experience often tells us, how custom dulls the senses. - Michel de Montaigne
Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Of Custom, and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law,” The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 23, Abel Langelier, Paris (1595).

Categories: Customs, Essayist, Habits, Judgment

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