“C’est ce qu’on dit, que le sage vit tant qu’il doit, non pas tant qu’il peut; et que le present que nature nous ait faict le plus favorable, et qui nous oste tout moyen de nous pleindre de nostre condition, c’est de nous avoir laissé la clef des champs.”
Essais, Livre II
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