"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom."
— Success

January 1, 1970

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Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1580), as translated by Jacob Zeitlin, vol. 3, p. 317 (1936); the translation of "Et au plus eslevé throne du monde, si ne sommes assis que sus nôstre cul" varies in other editions.