Accommodate Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.”

Michel de Montaigne

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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

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Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

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