ใ๐น๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ค๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ QOTD ใDo you like essays? โReader, thou hast here an honest bookโโ Seigneur de Montaigne was brought up to speak Latin & hardly spoke French (or Gascon) as a child. He preferred Ovidโs Metamorphoses to Spanish tales of chivalry & admired the Latin poets. โKnow Thyselfโ: Montaigneโs essais are attempts at himself, his revisions over approximately two decades (1570 - 1592) efforts to record โsome traits of my character and of my humoursโ. This is the man himself, essays of himself, by himself, built up through layers of thought & paper as part of a deeper yearning to assay Man & his place in the universe: โThus, reader, myself am the matter of my bookโ. & like the gentleman he was, he does all this in the style of a pleasant conversation. He is a delight to read & I reach for him whenever Iโm in a quiet, reflective frame of mind thatโs prone to wander & willing to be led by his stream of thought. xo Noelani Natalis laetus tibi, Monsieur de Montaigne ๐ฟ open window breeze cup of tea in the kitchen discussing essays โHad my intention been to seek the worldโs favor, I should surely have adorned myself with borrowed beauties: I desire therein to be viewed as I appear in mine own genuine, simple, and ordinary manner, without study and artifice: for it is myself I paint.โ | Michel de Montaigne, Essays #bookfeature #bookfeaturepage #currentread #bookcovers #prettybooks #oldbooks #micheldemontaigne #montaigne #authorslife #authorquotes #authorbirthday #essays #quotesilove #quotegram #bookquote #paperbacks #booknerdigan #booknerds #totalbooknerd #littlebookworm https://www.instagram.com/p/Cai5EeBrZBw/?utm_medium=tumblr
