
Michel de Montaigne Editor · English
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Michel de Montaigne Editor · English
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CHAPTER V UPON SOME VERSES OF VIRGIL CHAPTER V. By how much profitable thoughts are more full and solid, by so much are they also more cumbersome and heavy: vice, death, poverty, diseases, are grave and grievous subjects. A man should have his soul instructed in the means to sustain and to contend with evils, and in the rules of living and believing well: and often rouse it up, and exercise it in this noble study; but in an ordinary soul it must be by intervals and with moderati

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