# What recurring behaviour is the passage describing? What is your version of it?

_Theme: **patterns** - card 3/4 - 2026-05-01_

> Their way of speaking is: “I assert nothing; it is no more so than so, or than neither one nor t’other; I understand it not. Appearances are everywhere equal; the law of speaking, _pro_ or _con_, is the same. Nothing seems true, that may not seem false.” Their sacramental word is that is to say, “I hold, I stir not.” This is the burden of their song, and others of like stuff.

-- Michel de Montaigne, _Essays of Michel de Montaigne (Complete)_

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