Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own?
 Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1580). copy citation

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Author Michel de Montaigne
Source The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
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Date 1580
Language English
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Note Translated by Charles Cotton
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““So we praise the swift horse, for whose easy mastery many a hand glows in applause, and victory exults in the hoarse circus. —“Juvenal, viii. 57.] and not for his rich caparison; a greyhound for his speed of heels, not for his fine collar; a hawk for her wing, not for her gesses and bells. Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own? He has a great train, a beautiful palace, so much credit, so many thousand pounds a year: all these are about him, but not in him. You will not buy a pig in a poke: if you cheapen a horse, you will see him stripped of his housing-cloths, you will see him naked and open to your eye;” source