Michel de Montaigne Quote

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.


Essais (1580)


Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the...

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the...

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the...

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the...