["From the very fountain of our pleasure, something rises that is bitt… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

["From the very fountain of our pleasure, something rises that is bitter, which even in flowers destroys."--Lucretius, iv. 1130.]

Place: CHAPTER XX · ¶3265
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