“How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation!”

— Michel De Montaigne , book Essays

Book II, Ch. 16. Of Glory
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

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

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