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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 54 words
Socrates, seeing a great quantity of riches, jewels, and furniture carried in pomp through his city. How many things, said he, I do not desire. Cicero, Tusc. Quaes., V. 32. Metrodorus lived on twelve ounces a day, Epicurus upon less; Metrocles slept in winter abroad amongst sheep, in summer in the cloisters of churches.
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