下の英文を「引用とモンテーニュ」という見出しで収納したいのですが、「引用」にあたるquotationは複数形の方がいいでしょうか。
There were frequent passages of commentary in the Essays, and hundreds of quotations from authors who Montaigne felt had captured points more elegantly and more acutely than he was able to. He quoted Plato 128 times, Lucretius 149 and Seneca 130.
It is tempting to quote authors when they express our very own thoughts but with a clarity and psychological accuracy we cannot match. They know us better than we know ourselves. What is shy and confused in us is succinctly and elegantly phrased in them, our pencil lines and annotations in the margins of their books and our borrowings from them indicating where we find a piece of ourselves, a sentence or two built of the very substance of which our own minds are made... ...
* Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy
お礼
どうもありがとうございます。 基本的なことでかつ消化されていれば問題ないでしょうが、そんな人に限って、いつの間にかオリジナルのアイディアと思いこんでしまう都合のいい習性がありませんか？