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Essays, Book 3, Essay 13 "On Experience" (1587-88) [tr. Screech (1987)] - Montaigne, Michel de | WIST Quotations
We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of discords as well as of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only some of them, what could he sing? He has…