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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 17
There is, peradventure, no more manifest vanity than to write of it so vainly. That which divinity has so divinely expressed to us["Vanity of vanities: all is vanity."Eccles., i. 2.]ought to be carefully and continually meditated by men of understanding. Who does not see that I have taken a road, in which, incessantly and without labour, I shall proceed so long as there shall be ink and paper in the world? I can give no account of my life by my actions; fortune has placed them too low: I must do it by my fancies. And yet I have seen a gentleman who only communicated his life by the workings of his belly: you might see on his premises a show of a row of basins of seven or eight days' standing; it was his study, his discourse; all other talk stank in his nostrils. Here, but not so nauseous, are the excrements of an old mind, sometimes thick, sometimes thin, and always indigested. And when shall I have done representing the continual agitation and mutation of my thoughts, as they come into my head, seeing that Diomedes wrote six thousand books upon the sole subject of grammar? ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 3597
Author: Montaigne, Michel de
Release Date: Nov 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English
Editor: Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913
Translator: Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687
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