Michel de Montaigne,
The Essays of Montaigne — Chapter XXI. That the profit of one man is the damage of another…
(1877)
“ And, which is yet worse, let every one but dive into his own bosom, and he will find his private wishes spring and his secret hopes grow up at another's expense. Upon which consideration it comes into my head, that nature does not in this swerve from her general polity ”
