(6) not knowing how, even in view of death, to let their grudge die,
(7) and extending its life beyond their own. (I. vii.)
The sentence might easily have been recast in a Latin period; Montaigne prefers to let it reach its climax by accumulation.
(1) Nature has furnished us, as with feet for walking, so with foresight to guide our lives,
(2) foresight not so ingenious, robust, and pretentious as the sort that explores (invention),
(3) but as things come, easy, quiet, and healthful,
(4) and doing very well what other people say,
(5) in those who have the knack of using it simply and regularly,
(6) that is to say, naturally. (III. xiii.)
So his epigrams are comparatively few and simple. His many memorable sayings are not paraded as sententiae.