/lit/ - Literature

What do i need to have read to understand him?

>The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve. There is nothing evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that the privation of life is no evil: to know, how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
>He is most famously known for his skeptical remark, "Que sçay-je?" ("What do I know?", in Middle French; now rendered as Que sais-je? in modern French).
Does /lit/ read Montaigne?

>>13345975
>yas
It's ok because I will always have philosophy.

Wait, Michel de Montaigne was a jew???

>Be Montaigne
>alter the literary landscape so much that immense rocky protrusions take your name

>>12899922
*cough cough*

What are your favorite Montaigne essays, quotes, overall points, etc?

good picks op going to add in daddy montaigne. he is like the boomer father I never had but with a high iq.

Have literally never seen anyone complain about this absolute mensch

Is it fair to say that Montaigne's philosophy is "Well, That's Just Like, Your Opinion, Man": The Philosophy, or am I misinterpreting it? Please correct me if I am misinterpreting it

>>12321270
He who has learned to die has unlearned how to be a slave

>>11968835
>The idea being expressed is bigger than the grammar used to express it.
Que sçay-je?

>Shakespeare read him
>Nietzsche read him
>Emerson read him
>Pessoa read him
why haven't you read this based frenchman yet /lit/?