History of Ideas: Montaigne
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The Simple Life of Raymond Montaigne
Montaigne writes about the world that makes you believe that the best thing you can do is just keep moving not moving in a way because you're trying to find the holy grail. Yet here he is saying better not to make the journey at all I don't believe it and also you have to ask the question he says that but would he swap would he really swap if you could say to Montaigne you can have this life again without the chateau without the tower without the library without the deskWithout the essays the nice simple life of the washer woman of the plowman would he swap? Would he give up the experience of having walked through the woods and seen all
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