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Essays
Montaigne's Essais, a collection of 107 essays in three books, first published in 1580 and expanded in 1588. Drawing on classical authors and his own experience, they range from friendship and solitude to death and the limits of knowledge.
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“Where death waits for us is uncertain; let us look for him everywhere. The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve.”
— Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book I, ch. 19, “That to study philosophy is to learn to die”, tr. Charles Cotton, ed. W. C. Hazlitt“we must reserve a backshop, wholly our own and entirely free, wherein to settle our true liberty, our principal solitude and retreat.”
— Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book I, ch. 38, “Of solitude”, tr. Charles Cotton, ed. W. C. HazlittWatch on YouTube: The School of Life: Montaigne ↗The School of Life introduces Montaigne