Montaigne and How to Stay Free When the World Wants Your Mind
“If Michel de Montaigne were to speak to us now, he might observe, with his usual light irony, that we tend to notice the value of freedom only when it begins to slip away. The wiser course, he might say, is to notice it now, while we still can, and to defend it with the only weapon that cannot be confiscated: a mind that remains, stubbornly and gently, its own.”
