# What single decision does this passage make harder to keep avoiding?

_Theme: **direction** - card 4/4 - 2026-05-07_

> 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.

-- Michel de Montaigne, _Essays of Michel de Montaigne (Complete)_

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