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Essays

Montaigne · 1580

Canon spine row 54. Montaigne — Essays. Era: 1580–95. Lang: French.

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

The self is the only subject worth studying, and honest attention to one's own mind is both philosophy and literature.

Sex: Present
Work: Absent
Learning: Primary
Religion: Present

self-and-identitymind-and-cognitionmortality

self-and-identity

why is it not in like manner lawful for every one to draw himself with a pen, as he did with a pencil?
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to judge the vigour and beauty of his soul, one must first know what is his own and what is not
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mind-and-cognition

all the abuses of the world are begotten by our being taught to be afraid of professing our ignorance
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he will see by manifest reason that he cannot possibly fall, and yet he will find the sight of the excessive height will fright and astound him
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mortality

I have neither frequented nor known death, nor have ever seen any person that has tried its qualities. Death is, peradventure, an indifferent thing; peradventure, a thing to be desired.
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every day concludes my expectation: and the journey of my life is carried on after the same manner
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