About Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant writers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual...
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.