Sarah Bakewell book How to Live
Source: How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010), p. 55.
“From now on, Montaigne would live for himself rather than for duty.”
— Sarah Bakewell, book How to Live
describing Montaigne’s retirement at age 38, p. 24.
How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010)
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