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Moral philosophy applies as well to an ordinary private life as to a grand one, since every person carries the whole human condition
Drawn from what Michel de Montaigne said
What Michel de Montaigne actually said
- Michel de Montaigne French essayist and philosopher (1533 to 1592)
I propose a life ordinary and without lustre: ‘tis all one; all moral philosophy may as well be applied to a common and private life, as to one of richer composition: every man carries the entire form of human condition.
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↗Essays (tr. Charles Cotton, ed. W. C. Hazlitt, 1877)gutenberg.org
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