While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.


Complete Essays (ed. Stanford University Press, 1958) - ISBN: 9780804704861

Michel de Montaigne Quotes

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down....

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down....

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down....

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down....