--[Pleasure--unless 'plaisir' were originally 'deplaisir'--must be und… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

--[Pleasure--unless 'plaisir' were originally 'deplaisir'--must be understood here ironically, for the house was one in which she had been imprisoned.--Seneca, De Ira. iii. 22]--

Place: CHAPTER IV · ¶287
License: Public domain · Source
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