“Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."”

— Michel De Montaigne , book Essays

Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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