["While swords glitter, let no idea of piety, nor the face even of a f… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

["While swords glitter, let no idea of piety, nor the face even of a father presented to you, move you: mutilate with your sword those venerable features "--Lucan, vii. 320.]

Place: CHAPTER I · ¶3759
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