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What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion. - Michel de Montaigne
Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Apology for Raimund Sebond,” p. 486, The Essays of Montaigne, vol. I, trans. by E.J. Trechmann, Oxford University Press, New York and London (n.d.). Montaigne’s statement of the noble savage view.

Categories: Essayist, Relativism, Religion

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