“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”

—  Michel De Montaigne

Book III, Ch. 13
Essais (1595), Book III
Source: Montaigne: Essays

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(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, … 1533–1592

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