- or, since MAL can mean evil, badness, suffering, illness, harm: "Evil comes not from without, but is in our DNA". (But Montaigne would not have used such careless jargon.)
In the sense of 'suffering', Montaigne is echoing the Buddha: 'All [human] life is suffering'. But the word 'planté' is less passive, and I think he means 'our sickness which makes us evil'.
- or, since MAL can mean evil, badness, suffering, illness, harm:
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In the sense of 'suffering', Montaigne is echoing the Buddha: 'All [human] life is suffering'. But the word 'planté' is less passive, and I think he means 'our sickness which makes us evil'.