“Now the end I think is always the same: how to live
in leisure at our ease. But people do not always seek the way properly. Often
they think they have left their occupations behind when they have merely
changed them. There is hardly less torment in running a family than in running
a whole country. Whenever our soul finds something to do she is there in her
entirety: domestic tasks may be less important but they are no less
importunate. Anyway, by ridding ourselves of Court and market-place we do not
rid ourselves of the principal torments of our life.”—French essayist Michel de
Montaigne (1533-1592), The Complete Essays, edited by M.A.
Screech (1987)
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