I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the co…

Michel de Montaigne
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, James Hain Friswell (1866). Essays by Montaigne. [A selection.] Edited, compared, revised, and annotated by the Author of “The Gentle Life” [J. H. Friswell]., p.318
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