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Man is certainly mad. He cannot fashion a worm, and he fashions gods by dozens.
[L’homme est bien insensé: Il ne sçauroit forger un ciron, & forge des Dieux à douzaines.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 12 (2.12), “Apology for Raymond Sebond [Apologie de Raimond de Sebonde]” (1573) [tr. Zeitlin (1934)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
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KING RICHARD: Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.
The breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the Lord.
For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed
To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
God for His Richard hath in heavenly pay
A glorious angel. Then, if angels fight,
Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 55ff (3.2.55) (1595)More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
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