When they order us to love three, four, or fifty degrees of things abo… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

When they order us to love three, four, or fifty degrees of things above ourselves, they do like archers, who, to hit the white, take their aim a great deal higher than the butt; to make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

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