Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 15

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592; Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913 [Editor]; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687 [Translator]· 1 chapters· 26,054 words

By how much profitable thoughts are more full and solid, by so much are they also more cumbersome and heavy: vice, death, poverty, diseases, are grave and grievous subjects. A man should have his soul instructed in the means to sustain and to contend with evils, and in the rul...

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By how much profitable thoughts are more full and solid, by so much are they also more cumbersome and heavy: vice, death, poverty, diseases, are grave and grievous subjects. A m...