Let us add another story, not very improper for this subject, which Seneca relates in one of his epistles:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know,\u201d says he, writing to Lucilius, \u201cthat Harpaste, my wife\u2019s fool, is thrown upon me as an hereditary charge, for I have naturally an aversion to those monsters; and if I have a mind to laugh at a fool, I need not seek him far; I can laugh at myself. This fool has suddenly lost her sight.<\/p>\n
I tell you a strange, but a very true thing she is not sensible that she is blind, but eternally importunes her keeper to take her abroad, because she says the house is dark.<\/p>\n
That what we laugh at in her, I pray you to believe, happens to every one of us: no one knows himself to be avaricious or grasping.<\/p>\n
And, again, the blind call for a guide, while we stray of our own accord. I am not ambitious, we say; but a man cannot live otherwise at Rome; I am not wasteful, but the city requires a great outlay; \u2019tis not my fault if I am choleric \u2014 if I have not yet established any certain course of life: \u2019tis the fault of youth. Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; \u2019tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.<\/p>\n
If we do not betimes begin to see to ourselves, when shall we have provided for so many wounds and evils wherewith we abound? And yet we have a most sweet and charming medicine in philosophy; for of all the rest we are sensible of no pleasure till after the cure: this pleases and heals at once.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Essays of Montaigne<\/strong><\/em> Let us add another story, not very improper for this subject, which Seneca relates in one of his epistles: \u201cYou know,\u201d says he, writing to Lucilius, \u201cthat Harpaste, my wife\u2019s fool, is thrown upon me as an hereditary charge, for I have naturally an 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\nMichel de Montaigne<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"