Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
I, who have so much and so universally adored this ἄριστον μέτρον, "excellent mediocrity,"[780:1] of ancient times, and who have concluded the most moderate measure the most perfect, shall I pretend to an unreasonable and prodigious old age?
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
Footnotes
[774:1] This book of Montaigne the world has indorsed by translating it into all tongues, and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe.—Emerson: Representative Men. Montaigne.
[774:2] See Plutarch, page [730].
[774:3] See Raleigh, page [25].
Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent (Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb).—Seneca: Hippolytus, ii. 3, 607.
[774:4] See Sidney, page [264].
Mendacem memorem esse oportere (To be a liar, memory is necessary).—Quintilian: iv. 2, 91.