he must shut his eyes against the blow that threatens him; he must tre… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

he must shut his eyes against the blow that threatens him; he must tremble upon the margin of a precipice, like a child; nature having reserved these light marks of her authority, not to be forced by our reason and the stoic virtue, to teach man his mortality and our weakness; he turns pale with fear, red with shame, and groans with the cholic, if not with desperate outcry, at least with hoarse and broken voice:

Lugar: CHAPTER II · ¶1854
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