Montaigne. Experiments

"Experiments" Michel Montaenya (1533-1592) have long become a workshop book of wisdom for the European reader. Unlike many other books that played a role and who came off the stage, the aphorisms of the French thinker from the moment of their first appearance in the press in 1580 did not know oblivion. Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Voltaire, Denis Didro, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Locke, Byron, Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Marina Tsvetaeva-it is difficult to find an intellectual who would resist the charm of the penetrating mind and the noble personality of Montev, who would not appreciate his frankness, The breadth of interests, the depth of erudition.
Montain is witty and fast, ironic and trusting, deprived of gloomy edification, and therefore-more than appropriate today, in the era of quick pleasures and still a long aftertaste. Therefore, Montaena is read today