Aucun homme n'est une île, complet en soi-même ; chaque être humain est une partie du continent, une partie du tout.
Meditation XVII
Contexte et précisions
En anglais : "No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."