“ Life is a material and corporal motion, an action imperfect and irregular of its own proper essence ”
Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1580). copy citation
| Author | Michel de Montaigne |
|---|---|
| Source | The Essays of Michel de Montaigne |
| Topic | action life |
| Date | 1580 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Charles Cotton |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3600/3600-h/3600-h.htm |
Context
““The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.” —Ps. xciii. II; or I Cor. iii. 20.]
These exquisite subtleties are only fit for sermons; they are discourses that will send us all saddled into the other world. Life is a material and corporal motion, an action imperfect and irregular of its own proper essence; I make it my business to serve it according to itself:
“Quisque suos patimur manes.” [“We each of us suffer our own particular demon.”—AEneid, vi. 743.] “Sic est faciendum, ut contra naturam universam nihil contendamus;”
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