An idea from Essays

People ask how a strange thing happened before asking whether it happened. Reason will build causes for something that never was. In a witch trial that habit costs a life: “'tis setting a man’s conjectures at a very high price upon them to cause a man to be roasted alive.”

From Essays by Michel de Montaigne

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