Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent a…

Michel de Montaigne
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Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator, p.399
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 14, 1595.
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