{"serial":"BRIEF-2026-05-07-04","doc":"brief-2026-05-07","position":4,"body_html":"<h1>What single decision does this passage make harder to keep avoiding?</h1>\n<p class=\"muted\">Theme: <strong>direction</strong> &middot; card 4/4 &middot; 2026-05-07</p>\n<blockquote>Amongst the functions of the soul, there are some of a lower and meaner form; he who does not see her in those inferior offices as well as in those of nobler note, never fully discovers her; and, peradventure, she is best shown where she moves her simpler pace. The winds of passions take most hold of her in her highest flights; and the rather by reason that she wholly applies herself to, and exercises her whole virtue upon, every particular subject, and never handles more than one thing at a time, and that not according to it, but according to herself.</blockquote>\n<p class='muted'>&mdash; Michel de Montaigne, <em>Essays of Michel de Montaigne (Complete)</em></p>\n<p class='muted'><em>Notes go here when you tap capture or note above.</em></p>","captures":[],"notes":"","comments":[]}