They whom fortune (call it good or ill) has made to, pass their lives … — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

They whom fortune (call it good or ill) has made to, pass their lives in some eminent degree, may by their public actions manifest what they are; but they whom she has only employed in the crowd, and of whom nobody will say a word unless they speak themselves, are to be excused if they take the boldness to speak of themselves to such as are interested to know them; by the example of Lucilius:

Lugar: CHAPTER XVII · ¶3062
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