The mistake human beings make is to:
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Correct answer: D. abstain from restraining the mind
Explanation
Changing place without disciplining the mind's passions achieves nothing.
Note: Passage I is from Montaigne's essay 'Of Solitude' (Essays I.39, 1580), given in a modern translation and summarised here. Solitude aims at living at ease, but people mistake the way: leaving court and market does not free us, since a household is hardly less troublesome than a state, and ambition, avarice, fear and lust follow us into cloisters and schools of philosophy. We must withdraw the soul itself from these attachments. Option wording follows the source.
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