“Every man has within himself the entire human condition”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book III, Ch. 2
Essais (1595), Book III
Variant: Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
“A learned man always has riches within himself.”
Book VI, fable 22, line 1
Fables
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