["So savage beasts, when shut up in cages and grown unaccustomed to th… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

["So savage beasts, when shut up in cages and grown unaccustomed to the woods, have become tame, and have laid aside their fierce looks, and submit to the rule of man; if again a slight taste of blood comes into their mouths, their rage and fury return, their jaws are erected by thirst of blood, and their anger scarcely abstains from their trembling masters."--Lucan, iv. 237.]

Place: CHAPTER II · ¶3784
License: Public domain · Source
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