Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne
- Educated at
- University of Toulouse (1896-1968)College of Guienne
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Trending topics shown first"The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure."
"For my own part, I cannot without grief see so much as an innocent beast pursued and killed that has no defence, and from which we have received no offence at all."
"Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead."
"Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee."
"Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?"
"'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past."
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1533
Born
Birth1592
Died
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