Maxioms by Michael Eyquen De Montaigne
Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.
Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.
Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.
To each foot its own shoe.
[Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.]
To each foot its own shoe.
[Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.]
Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the
crowd of physicians had killed him."
Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the
crowd of physicians had killed him."
