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Saturday, February 15, 2020

Tidbits from Montaigne 4


How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among their friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.  

—Michel de Montaigne, Essays 1.14

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