It happens as with the cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within… — Michel de Montaigne
It happens as with the cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
In the original French
Il en advient ce qui se voit aux cages: les oyseaux qui en sont hors, desesperent d'y entrer; et d'un pareil soing en sortir, ceux qui sont au dedans.
Essays · 1580
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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Some Lines of Virgil." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.
Original citation
De Montaigne, Michel. "Sur des Vers de Virgile [Upon Some Verses of Virgil]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.
