Biography
(1533-1592)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is the Father of the Essay.
Michel de Montaigne
Essays:
- Against idleness
- All things have their season
- Cowardice, the mother of cruelty
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- Not to counterfeit being sick
- Of a monstrous child
- Of a saying of Caesar
- Of anger
- Of cannibals
- Of coaches
- Of constancy
- Of experience
- Of idleness
- Of liars
- Of not communicating one’s honour
- Of one defect in our government
- Of pedantry
- Of posting
- Of prayers
- Of quick or slow speech
- Of repentance
- Of sleep
- Of smells
- Of sumptuary laws
- Of the battle of Dreux
- Of the custom of wearing clothes
- Of the education of children
- Of the force of imagination
- Of the inconstancy of our actions
- Of the parsimony of the ancients
- Of the punishment of cowardice
- Of the Roman grandeur
- Of the vanity of words
- Of thumbs
- That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances
- That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended
- That men by various ways arrive at the same end
- That men should not judge of our happiness till after our death
- That our mind hinders itself
- That the hour of parley is dangerous
- That the intention is judge of our actions
- That the profit of one man is the damage of another
- That the soul expends its passions upon false objects, where the true are wanting
- That to study philosophy is to learn to die
- That we are to avoid pleasures, even at the expense of life
- That we laugh and cry for the same thing
- That we taste nothing pure
- The ceremony of the interview of princes
- To the reader
- Tomorrow’s a new day
- Use makes perfect