Jóhann Valur

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To keep this goal in the forefront of his mind, he had a series of medals9 struck in 1576, featuring Sextus’s magic word epokhe (here appearing as epekho), together with his own arms and an emblem of weighing scales. The scales are another Pyrrhonian symbol, designed to remind himself both to maintain balance, and to weigh things up rather than merely accepting them.
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer
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