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• holri · Sep 2, 2017 · Recommends

  Essais - Michel de Montaigne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne

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• wanderer2323 · Feb 20, 2016 · Recommends

  If a child cannot understand the scope and themes of, say, Montaigne's Essais, is this a fault of Montaigne's? The Pendulum is similarly loaded with concepts and ideas.

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• tuatoru · Oct 18, 2022 · Recommends

  Essays. Some of the better substacks are worth collecting and publishing as books, like Montaigne's Essais. A newsletter is for events, essays are for ideas and reasoning. Substack is a good place for the latter.

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• jacques_chester · Nov 19, 2012 · Mentions

  …posts on various topics. Write multi kilo-word reviews of honest to goodness books with reference to the ideas therein. Really pour yourself into the work -- take as your inspiration Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Submit some of these. Watch them get, at most, a single upvote. 2. Write one (1) angry rant about a company well-known to HNers, with no goals other than to vent a bit. Add "sucks" to the title somewhere.…

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• marginalia_nu · Dec 17, 2021 · Mentions

  Some fairly hefty books have been written with a pen. Consider something like The City of God, or The Enneads, or the Essais of Montaigne. If anything, I think they were better for it. A slow writing medium means a lot more thought went into each page. Nobody in their right mind would spend hours arduously writing a buzzfeed…

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• a_bonobo · Dec 21, 2015 · Mentions

  …There are so many minor stories and bits of wisdom that positively influenced my outlook on humanity and the work I do. - Bakewell's How To Live: If you don't have time or leisure to read Montaigne's Essais (I'm still not finished with those), Bakewell's book is a bit of a primer/summary of Montaigne's lessons interwoven with Montaigne's life. - Marsh's Do No Harm: it's the autobiography of a "famous" neuro-surgeon…

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• Jugurtha · May 22, 2020 · Mentions

  …dictionary precisely because too many people pronounced it that way and I was livid. I eventually toned down my zeal because languages and people are dynamic and ever evolving and reflecting on Montaigne's Essais, written in late 1500s French, lead me to more understanding. PS: I still consider that using "nucular" is insane. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucular

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• Veen · Dec 29, 2020 · Mentions

  Essays historically originated---with Montaigne's Essais---as discursive, digressive, long-form prose. They are a prose artform that attempts to achieve more than a straightforward information dump. You might not like the form, and there are certainly many…

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• 50 · Feb 19, 2023 · Mentions

  > There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. (Michel de Montaigne, Essais) Albert Camus dancing (Life Magazine): https://coreyrobin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/albert-cam...

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• ksenzee · Feb 15, 2024 · Mentions

  I wrote a master’s thesis on Montaigne (specifically on a publishing system for his Essais) and I think it’s a decently topical name. The Essais really were more like blog posts than like what we now call an essay.

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