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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 80 words
But all these good inclinations were stifled and spoiled by his furious ambition, by which he suffered himself to be so transported and misled that one may easily maintain that this passion was the rudder of all his actions; of a liberal man, it made him a public thief to supply this bounty and profusion, and made him utter this vile and unjust saying, That if the most wicked and profligate persons in the world had been faithful in serving.
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