Friday, June 07, 2019
Panacea
Montesquieu (1689-1755), "Pensées diverses," in his Oeuvres complètes, ed. Édouard Laboulaye, Tome VII (Paris: Garnier, 1879), pp. 149-181 (at 151):
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L'étude a été pour moi le souverain remède contre les dégoûts de la vie, n'ayant jamais eu de chagrin qu'une heure de lecture n'ait dissipé.Translated by Henry C. Clark:
Study has always been for me the sovereign remedy against life's unpleasantness, since I have never experienced any sorrow that an hour's reading did not eliminate.
