Essays (Michel de Montaigne)
A work by Michel de Montaigne
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Learning to die is learning to be free; whoever has learned to die has unlearned servitude, People call barbarous whatever is not customary in their own country, The greatest thing in the world is for a person to know that they belong to themselves …
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Michel de Montaigne
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- There are 8 claims from it on korrents, each quoted word for word.
- Its full text is free to read on Project Gutenberg.
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What korrents draws from it
korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.
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Learning to die is learning to be free; whoever has learned to die has unlearned servitude (opens korrents.com)1
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People call barbarous whatever is not customary in their own country (opens korrents.com)1
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The greatest thing in the world is for a person to know that they belong to themselves (opens korrents.com)1
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Cruelty is the most extreme of all vices (opens korrents.com)1
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A person playing with a cat cannot know whether they amuse the cat more than it amuses them (opens korrents.com)1
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Moral philosophy applies as well to an ordinary private life as to a grand one, since every person carries the whole human condition (opens korrents.com)1
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