Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers.... : Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“ Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict charge to cure him of a long and inward disease under which he had a great while languished, and observing that, after his cure, he went much more coldly to work than before, he asked him what had so altered and cowed him: “Yourself, sir,” replied the other, “by having eased me of the pains that made me weary of my life. ”

Michel de Montaigne
  • From : The Complete Essays
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