chreme

Updated: May 28, 2025

'Tis a doctrine ruinous to all government, and much more hurtful than ingenious and subtle, which persuades the people that a religious belief is alone sufficient, and without conduct, to satisfy the divine justice. Use demonstrates to us a vast distinction betwixt devotion and conscience. I have a favourable aspect, both in form and in interpretation: "Quid dixi, habere me? imo habui, Chreme."

Michel de Montaigne - The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 18