exsilia

Updated: May 4, 2025

It is, indeed, true that even these themselves do not always go exactly in the path of nature, but wherein they swerve, it is so little that you may always see the track; as horses that are led make many bounds and curvets, but 'tis always at the length of the halter, and still follow him that leads them; and as a young hawk takes its flight, but still under the restraint of its tether: "Exsilia, torments, bells, morbos, naufragia meditare . . . ut nullo sis malo tiro."

Michel de Montaigne - The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 18