To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?


As quoted by Montaigne in: The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne (1842), p. 66

Anaximenes of Miletus Quotes

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?