anything imagined ridiculous, miserable wretched creature [man], much — Michel de Montaigne, Apology Raymond Sebond

Apology for Raymond Sebond Michel de Montaigne

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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

Michel de Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond

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