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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

Author: Montaigne, Michel de

Categories: diversity; human nature; judgments

Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “By diverse means we arrive at the same end,” The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 1, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).



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