Few men can speak ordinately, wisely, adequately. And so errors which proceed from ignorance do not offend me: absurdity does. They understand neither why nor what they are told: they answer accordingly. It is enough to make you despair.
Yes, but what if I myself am taking things for other than they are? That may well be: that explains first of all why I condemn my inability to put up with it, holding it to be equally a defect in those who are right and those who are wrong, since there is always an element of tyrannical bad temper in being unable to tolerate characters different from your own. Secondly, there is in truth no greater silliness, none more enduring, than to be provoked and enraged by the silliness of the world – and there is none more bizarre. For it makes you principally irritated with yourself.
~ Montaigne, The Complete Essays (1587-88)
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Posted: October 30th, 2010, 4:32pm MDT by husky
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