Michel de Montaigne Quote

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"La vérité éternelle et universelle est l'amour"

Translations

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

Michel de Montaigne

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

“We are richer than we think, each one of us”

“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”

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