# Which loop does the passage close that you have left open?

_Theme: **patterns** - card 2/4 - 2026-05-19_

> “Si nunquam Danaen habuisset ahenea turris, Non esses, Danae, de Jove facta parens;” [“If a brazen tower had not held Danae, you would not, Danae, have been made a mother by Jove.”--Ovid, Amoy., ii. 19, 27.] and that there is nothing naturally so contrary to our taste as satiety which proceeds from facility; nor anything that so much whets it as rarity and difficulty:

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

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