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Essays — Michel de Montaigne

["By how much more you use it to many, by so much less will you be in a capacity to use it to many more. And what greater folly can there be than to order it so that what you would willingly do, you cannot do longer."--Cicero, De Offic., ii. 15.]

Place: CHAPTER VI · ¶4321
License: Public domain · Source
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