Michel de Montaigne Quote

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.


Essais (1580)


So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither ...

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither ...

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither ...

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither ...