I believe it is the very same condition those people are in, whom we s… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

I believe it is the very same condition those people are in, whom we see swoon with weakness in the agony of death we pity them without cause, supposing them agitated with grievous dolours, or that their souls suffer under painful thoughts. It has ever been my belief, contrary to the opinion of many, and particularly of La Boetie, that those whom we see so subdued and stupefied at the approaches of their end, or oppressed with the length of the disease, or by accident of an apoplexy or falling sickness,

Endroit: CHAPTER VI · ¶1977
Licence: Public domain · Source
Le texte est donné tel que dans l'édition, sans retouche.

← RetourSuite →Vérifier votre citation