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From The Complete Works, by Michel de Montaigne, translated by Donald M. Frame

SHAPE

"The shape of my library is round, the only flat side being the part needed for my table and chair; and curving round me it presents at a glance all my books, arranged in five rows of shelves on all sides. It offers rich and free views in three directions, and sixteen paces of free space in diameter."

From Of Three Kinds of Association

Daily Dose

From The Complete Works, by Michel de Montaigne, translated by Donald M. Frame

BUT

"But I am straying a bit from my theme."

From Cowardice, Mother of Cruelty

Daily Dose

From The Complete Works, by Michel de Montaigne, translated by Donald Frame

IT MIGHT

"It might rather be said, it seems to me, that nothing presents itself to us in which there is not some difference, however slight; and that either to the sight or to the touch, there is always something extra that attracts us, though it be imperceptibly."

From Essays, Book II, 14, How our mind hinders itself

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From The Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne, translated by Donald M. Frame

THEY SAY

"They say that Zeno had to do with a woman only once in his life, and then out of civility, so as not to seem too obstinately to disdain the sex."

From On Some Verses of Virgil