[773:12] See Plutarch, page [738].


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MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE.  1533-1592.

(Works.[774:1] Cotton's translation, revised by Hazlitt and Wight.)

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.[774:2]

Book i. Chap. i. That Men by various Ways arrive at the same End.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.[774:3]

Book i. Chap. ii. Of Sorrow.

It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.[774:4]