“We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.”

— Michel De Montaigne

As quoted in The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne (1877) edited by William Carew Hazlitt, p. 289

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