"Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness."
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Michel de Montaigne, in The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics, p. 4.
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Michel de Montaigne
1533 – 1592
französischer Philosoph, Schriftsteller und Politiker
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