What single decision does this passage make harder to keep avoiding?
Theme: direction · card 2/4 · 2026-05-14

“Hunc saltem everso juvenem succurrere seclo, Ne prohibete.” [“Forbid not, at least, that this young man repair this ruined age.” --Virgil, Georg., i. 500. Montaigne probably refers to Henry, king of Navarre, afterwards Henry IV.] What has become of the old precept, “That soldiers ought more to fear their chief than the enemy”?--[Valerius Maximus, Ext. 2.]--and of that wonderful example, that an orchard being enclosed within the precincts of a camp of the Roman army, was seen at their dislodgment the next day in the same condition, not an apple, though ripe and delicious, being pulled off, but all left to the possessor?
— Michel de Montaigne, Essays of Michel de Montaigne (Complete)

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