“Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.”

— Michel De Montaigne, book Essays

Book I, Ch. 1. That Men by various Ways arrive at the same End
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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