["'Tis the common vice of nature, that we at once repose most confiden… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

["'Tis the common vice of nature, that we at once repose most confidence, and receive the greatest apprehensions, from things unseen, concealed, and unknown."--De Bello Civil, xi. 4.]

Place: CHAPTER LIII · ¶1682
License: Public domain · Source
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