Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaignewas one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with serious intellectual insight; his massive volume Essaiscontains some of the most influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers all over the world, including Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albert Hirschman, William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche,...
course life ordered scottish weak
There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline.
advice dreary dying whatever
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
exalted sitting throne
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
cabbage death planting
I want death to find me planting my cabbage
dare grow
I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.
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I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never
cries death men overwhelm passion storms word
Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come - to them, their wives, their children, their friends - cathcing them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries what fury, what despair!
against corner haven resting retreat tempest
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
confidence evidence light virtue
Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
death
It is not death that alarms me, but dying.
fleeing search
I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.
friend information laugh personal
You can't tell your friend you've been cuckolded; even if he doesn't laugh at you, he may put the information to personal use