Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 14

CHAPTER I

OF PROFIT AND HONESTY

No man is free from speaking foolish things; but the worst on't is, when a man labours to play the fool:

"Nae iste magno conatu magnas nugas dixerit."

["Truly he, with a great effort will shortly say a mighty trifle." ---Terence, Heaut., act iii., s. 4.]

This does not concern me; mine slip from me with ...