A Ruling Pattern

Portrait of Montaigne

There is no one who, if he listens to himself, does not discover in himself a pattern all his own, a ruling pattern, which struggles against education.

– Michel de Montaigne, quoted in How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell (translation: Donald Frame)

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