["Remember that the greatest pains are terminated by death; that sligh… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

["Remember that the greatest pains are terminated by death; that slighter pains have long intermissions of repose, and that we are masters of the more moderate sort: so that, if they be tolerable, we bear them; if not, we can go out of life, as from a theatre, when it does not please us"--Cicero, De Finib. i. 15.]

Place: CHAPTER XL · ¶1325
License: Public domain · Source
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