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Essays — Michel de Montaigne

'Tis not, perhaps, without reason, that we attribute facility of belief and easiness of persuasion to simplicity and ignorance: for I fancy I have heard belief compared to the impression of a seal upon the soul, which by how much softer and of less resistance it is, is the more easy to be impressed upon.

Place: CHAPTER XXVI · ¶932
License: Public domain · Source
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