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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 12

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Original author: Michel de Montaigne

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"Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 12" by Michel de Montaigne is a collection of essays written between approximately 1570 and 1592. In this final volume, Montaigne continues his intimate self-examination, exploring topics from the profound to the trivial with skeptical wisdom. Writing during France's religious wars, he questions human certainty and reason while drawing on classical sources. His conversational style and frank introspection reveal a mind grappling with knowledge's limits, human nature's volatility, and life's fundamental mysteries. These essays became profoundly influential on Western literature and thought.

Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 12, by Michel de Montaigne. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #3592.

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