If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Michel de Montaigne
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Essays, Book I, Of Friendship; translated by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew Hazlitt (1877); Complete sentence on his friendship with Étienne de La Boétie. Public-domain Cotton/Hazlitt edition; this edition numbers essay XXVII, other editions XXVIII.
- Essays, Book I, Of Friendship; translated by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew Hazlitt (1877)
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