Presents a brief profile of the life and work of this French Renaissance essayist and philosopher.

Read a list of familiar quotations by Michel de Montaigne. From John Bartlett's collection of quotations.

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Read the entire text of this essay written by Montaigne in 1580 that comments on European civilization in the context of the New World.