Michel De Montaigne
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I am less a maker of books than of anything. I have always desired just enough of a fortune to satisfy real and pressing conveniences, not to turn such a competence into a magazine and store for my heirs. ' 2 Style was essential to him the primal equipment of a writer. By culling here and there in the Essays we could easily collect a perfect compendium for authors, an anthology for critics. He has said most things that can 1 Essais, ii. 6: 'De 1'Exercitation. ' 2 Essais, ii. 37 : ' De la Ressem...blance des enfants aux pres. ' 154 MONTAIGNE THE MAN be said on style. And style, as he conceived it, could not exist without two qualities clearness and simplicity. C It was, ' he wrote, c with good reason that childhood and sim- plicity were so much commended by Truth itself ' ; l and the words, though they bore no literary import, might be taken as a definition of Montaigne's literary ideal.
' I hear people excuse themselves, ' he says elsewhere, ' for not being able to express them- selves ; they make a show of having their heads full of a great many fine things, but for lack of eloquence, say they, they cannot bring them out.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I am less a maker of books than of anything. I have always desired just enough of a fortune to satisfy real and pressing conveniences, not to turn such a competence into a magazine and store for my heirs. ' 2 Style was essential to him the primal equipment of a writer. By culling here and there in the Essays we could easily collect a perfect compendium for authors, an anthology for critics. He has said most things that can 1 Essais, ii. 6: 'De 1'Exercitation. ' 2 Essais, ii. 37 : ' De la Ressem...blance des enfants aux pres. ' 154 MONTAIGNE THE MAN be said on style. And style, as he conceived it, could not exist without two qualities clearness and simplicity. C It was, ' he wrote, c with good reason that childhood and sim- plicity were so much commended by Truth itself ' ; l and the words, though they bore no literary import, might be taken as a definition of Montaigne's literary ideal.
' I hear people excuse themselves, ' he says elsewhere, ' for not being able to express them- selves ; they make a show of having their heads full of a great many fine things, but for lack of eloquence, say they, they cannot bring them out.
What to read after Michel De Montaigne?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Edith Helen Sichel to read onlineMoreLess
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