Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.


Book III, ch. 9 - Essais (1595)

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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my...

Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my...

Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my...

Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my...