For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every… — Michel de Montaigne
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
In the original French
Car la verité mesme n'a pas ce privilege d'estre employée à toute heure et en toute sorte
Essays · 1580
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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Experience." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.
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De Montaigne, Michel. "De l'Experience [Of Experience]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.