Michel de Montaigne

(28 February 1533 - 13 September 1592)

Most of our occupations are farcical: ‘Mundus universus exercet histrionem.’ [Everybody in the entire world is acting a part.]12

Michel de Montaigne [Essays III, 10. On restraining your will]

  1. Petronius (fragment) cited after Justus Lipsius’ De Constantia. ↩

  2. So it wasn`t Shakespeare who said this first, neither it was Montaigne, he is just quoting Petronius here. [Garen] ↩