desinent

Updated: May 2, 2025

I shun melancholy, crabbed men, as I would the plague; and in matters I cannot talk of without emotion and concern I never meddle, if not compelled by my duty: "Melius non incipient, quam desinent." The surest way, therefore, is to prepare one's self beforehand for occasions.

Michel de Montaigne - The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 18