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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 76 words
Anaximenes writing to Pythagoras, To what purpose, said he, should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes. for the kings of Persia were at that time preparing to invade his country. Every one ought to say thus, Being assaulted, as I am by ambition, avarice, temerity, superstition, and having within so many other enemies of life, shall I go ponder over the worlds changes.
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