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Is it possible to imagine anything so ridiculous as this miserable and wretched creature, which is not so much as master of himself … and yet dareth call himself master and emperor of this universe in whose power it is not to know the least part of it, much less to command the same?

— Michel Montaigne (1568)

The Works of Michel de Montaigne
, p. 205