There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1595, book 3; PMB; There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ~Michel de Montaigne, translation by Charles Cotton, revised by Hazlitt and Wight; Works. Book III, chap.9, Of Vanity; BMC
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