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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 80 words
I can, for my part, think of no state so insupportable and dreadful, as to have the soul vivid and afflicted, without means to declare itself; as one should say of such as are sent to execution with their tongues first cut out were it not that in this kind of dying, the most silent seems to me the most graceful, if accompanied with a grave and constant countenance; or if those miserable prisoners, who fall into the hands of.
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