The French philosopher Michel de Montaigne(1533-1592) wrote that“Death is part of you.
This street is called Rue Montaigne, and it is one high dollar street.
The greatest thing in the world is to know
how to live to yourself.- Michel de Montaigne.
Five-hundred years ago Michel de Montaigne said:"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.".
Five hundred years ago, Michel de Montaigne said:“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.”.
More than 500 years ago, Michel de Montaigne said,“My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes;
most of which never happened.”.
Montaigne's dearest friend,
Etienne, had died, and his essay was as much about the meaning of this loss as about friendship.
Much later Montaigne and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophers,
Montesquieu in France and Hume in England, all considered suicide a valid individual right.
By using a title like that and describing a fair indigean society, Montaigne may have wished to provoke a surprise in the reader of his Essays.