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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Solon who wrote (80469)3/8/2004 4:29:34 PM
From: E  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
Can you imagine the thoughts and the agony of a man like Montaigne in the midst of that?

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."

Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

Montaigne entered my thoughts because we're going to a colloquy on Montaigne later this week, having been invited by an acquaintance who's one of the participants, and I was googling this morning to kind of brush up, not having read a word of Montaigne since college. Montaigne was one smart man.