Title By Diverse Means We Arrive at the Same End

Author Michel de Montaigne

Kind of Book Essay

How strongly I recommend it 9/10 

My Impressions Short. Sweet. Worth Reading

Big Ideas

• People are very diverse.

• What triggers compassion in one person triggers hatred in another and vice versa

• Sometimes a person crying and pleading makes the other show compassion and pity, but sometimes it makes them even more angry.

• Sometimes a person being courageous and valiant makes the other show compassion and pity out of respect, but sometimes it makes them even more angry

• The stoics believed we should assist the afflicted, but not sympathize with them