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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

Michel de Montaigne
Endurance, Tests, Violence
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.266, Stanford University Press
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.