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in all places am always fastening upon you,arousing andpersuading and reproaching you...”Socrates'ApologyMARCH 1959  \n# Of the art of conference\n\nMontaigne says that every man may speak truly,but to speak methodi-cally,prudently,and fully,is a talent few men have  \nFEB 24 60  \nThe most fruitful and natural exer-cise of the mind,in my opinion,isconversation;I find the use of it moresweet than of any other action of life;and for that reason it is that,if I werenow compelled to choose,I shouldsooner,I think,consent to lose mysight,than my hearing and speech.TheAthenians,and also the Romans,keptthis exercise in great honour in theiracademies;the Italians retain sometraces of it to this day,to their greatadvantage,as is manifest by the com-parison of our understandings withtheirs.The study of books is a lan-guishing and feeble motion that heatsnot,whereas conversation teaches andexercises at once.  \nIf I converse with an understandingman,and a rough disputant,he presseshard upon me,and pricks me on bothsides;his imaginations raise up mineto more than ordinary pitch;jealousy,glory,and contention,stimulate andraise me up to something above my-self;and concurrence is a quality to-tally offensive in discourse.But,as ourminds fortify themselves by the com-munication of vigorous and regularunderstandings,'tis not to be expressedhow much they lose and degenerateby the continual commerce and fre-quentation we have with such as aremean and weak;there is no contagionthat spreads like that;I know suffi-ciently by experience what 'tis wortha yard.I love to discourse and dispute,but it is with but few men,and formyself;for to do it as a spectacle andentertainment to great persons,and tomake of a man's wit and words com-petitive parade,is,in my opinion,veryunbecoming a man of honour.  \nFolly is a scurvy quality;but not tobe able to endure it,to fret and vex at  \nFrom“Essays of Montaigne,”translat-ed by Charles Cotton,Reeves and Turner,London(1877).  \nit,as I do,is another sort of diseaselittle less troublesome than folly itself;and is the thing that I will now accusein myself.I enter into conference,anddispute with great liberty and facility,forasmuch as opinion meets in me witha soil very unfit for penetration,andwherein to take any deep root;no prop-ositions astonish me,no belief offendsme,though never so contrary to myown;there is no so frivolous and ex-travagant fancy that does not seem tome suitable to the production of hu-man wit.We,who deprive our judg-ment of the right of determining,lookindifferently upon the diverse opinions,and if we incline not our judgment tothem,yet we easily give them the hear-ing.Where one scale is totally empty,I let the other waver under old wives'dreams;and I think myself excusable,if I prefer the odd number;Thursday  \nrather than Friday;if I had rather bethe twelfth or fourteenth,than thethirteenth at table;if I had rather,ona journey,see a hare run by me thancross my way,and rather give my manmy left foot 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