We must not rivet ourselves so fast to our humours and complexions: ou… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

We must not rivet ourselves so fast to our humours and complexions: our chiefest sufficiency is to know how to apply ourselves to divers employments. 'Tis to be, but not to live, to keep a man's self tied and bound by necessity to one only course; those are the bravest souls that have in them the most variety and pliancy. Of this here is an honourable testimony of the elder Cato:

Place: CHAPTER III · ¶3805
License: Public domain · Source
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