QuoteQuest“How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among their friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Michel de Montaigne
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Montaigne, Michel de. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Michel de Montaigne. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne
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