Michel de Montaigne quote: What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, ...

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?

~ Michel de Montaigne ~

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