Essays

Michel de Montaigne

Montaigne uses his habits, fears, friendships, body, memory, and mistakes as raw material for thinking in public.

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He practically invented the personal essay and made uncertainty feel like an honest method instead of a weakness.

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self-knowledge
friendship
skepticism
mortality

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