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A quotation from Montaigne

There are few men, that would dare to publish the secret requests they make to God.
 
[Il est peu d’hommes qui ozassent mettre en evidence les requestes secrettes qu’ils font à Dieu.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 56 (1.56), “Of Prayers [Des prieres]” (1572-1580) [tr. Florio (1603)]

There are few men, that would dare to publish the secret requests they make to God. - Montaigne

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Montaigne, Michel de - Essays, Book 1, ch. 56 (1.56), "Of Prayers [Des prieres]" (1572-1580) [tr. Florio (1603)] | WIST Quotations

There are few men, that would dare to publish the secret requests they make to God. [Il est peu d’hommes qui ozassent mettre en evidence les requestes secrettes qu’ils font à Dieu.] This passage was in the 1st (1580) edition. (Source (French)).
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