Wednesday, 24 July 2013

A-bon-minable


"Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des lois toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie."

"There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

in Les Essais (III, 9), Michel de Montaigne, French writer, essayist, philosopher etc. (1533-1592)

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