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They go, they come, they trot, they dance: of death no news. All that is fine. But when it comes, either to them, or to their wives, children, or friends, surprising them unprepared and defenseless, what torments, what cries, what frenzy! and what despair overwhelms them! . We must provide for this earlier; and this brutish nonchalance, even if it could lodge in the head of a man of understanding -- which I consider entirely impossible -- sells us its wares too dear. Actually we should be grateful that pain exists, since it gives us our main chance for distinction.
The philosopher suspended in a metal net between the towers of Notre Dame is terrified, for all his philosophy. Our natural condition is too strong. Probably deficient, deceiving the soul, the senses are deceived by it in turn. Its passions affect our simplest perceptions. When we disagree with the animals, shall we trust our senses or theirs? Who is to say? We need to agree with the animals, and we do not; we need to agree with ourselves, and we cannot. When are -70- we right, when wrong? We do not know.
With pain it is much the same for Montaigne. The great question here is the degree of truth in his chapter title, "That the Taste of Good and Evil Depends in Large Part on the Opinion We Have of Them" (I:14). It would be fine indeed if this were true, he says; unfortunately it does not seem to be. For pain is the real stuff, whose essence we truly and certainly know; our senses are the judges. It is what we fear in poverty and in death. We can hope for painless death, but hardly for painless pain.