While this is a long Montaigne essay, it’s surprisingly focused. At the core, he’s making a simple point – because humans are capable of reframing death, pain and poverty as tolerable phenomena, and perhaps even good occurrences in some circumstances, then there is no objective happiness, there is only acts of reframing that bring on … Continue reading 14. That the Taste of Good and Evil Things Depends in Large Part on the Opinion We Have of Them