Michel de Montaigne Quote

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"Il n'y a aucun homme si bon que, s'il devait soumettre toutes ses pensées et actions aux lois, ne mériterait pas d'être pendu dix fois dans sa vie."

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“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself”

Michel de Montaigne

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