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Quotation from Essays by Michel de Montaigne
“when seated upon the most elevated throne in the world, we are but seated upon our breech”
Essays, Book III, Ch. XIII, 'Of Experience', trans. Charles Cotton (1685-1686)
Near the end of the book, Montaigne reduces every human pretension to the shared fact of having a body.
Citation: "when seated upon the most elevated throne in the world, we are but seated upon our breech" — Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book III, Ch. XIII, 'Of Experience', trans. Charles Cotton (1685-1686). (id essays-montaigne-q13)
Portrait: Portrait of Michel de Montaigne by unknown painter in the Musée Condé, anonymous, Public domain.
