Quotation by Michel de Montaigne

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. "Of Three Good Women," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. II, ch. 35, Abel Langelier, Paris (1595).
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