Showing posts with label Montaigne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Montaigne. Show all posts
20 September 2019
02 September 2017
we are born to grow old, to grow weak, and to be sick
We must patiently suffer the laws of our condition; we are born to grow old, to grow weak, and to be sick, in despite of all medicine. 'Tis the first lesson the Mexicans teach their children; so soon as ever they are born they thus salute them: "Thou art come into the world, child, to endure: endure, suffer, and say nothing." 'Tis injustice to lament that which has befallen any one which may befall every one.
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