The essays of Michel de Montaigne online
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Re: The essays of Michel de Montaigne online
#32A good edition to own is the beautiful hardcover edition published by Everyman's Library titled Michel de Montaigne The Complete Works Essays Travel journal Letters and translated by Donald Frame - http://www.everymanslibrary.co.uk/classics-author.aspx?lette...
The Donald frame translation is lovely. It’s a shame it’s not in the public domain.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Donald frame translation is lovely. It’s a shame it’s not in the public domain.
Ask and ye shall receive ;-) https://archive.org/details/MontaigneCompleteFrame/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/MontaigneCompleteFrame/Montaigne%...
I wonder which joker tagged the language as Norwegian.
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#34Thank you for your efforts. One of my favorite quotes of all time: "’Tis an absolute and, as it were, a divine perfection, for a man to know how loyally to enjoy his being. We seek other conditions, by reason we do not understand the use of our own; and go out of ourselves, because we know not how there to reside. ’Tis to much purpose to go upon stilts, for, when upon stilts, we must yet walk with our legs; and, when…
Just to clarify this isn't my own work, I just found it online by accident.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Donald frame translation is lovely. It’s a shame it’s not in the public domain.
Ask and ye shall receive ;-) https://archive.org/details/MontaigneCompleteFrame/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/MontaigneCompleteFrame/Montaigne%...
This is the translation I was referring to in a previous comment! Interesting how it has been brought up twice in a single thread.
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#36A translation into modern French might be an interesting addition.
Here it is, 1907: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Essais/%C3%A9dition_Michaud,_... EDIT: my bad, this is not modern French
This is very much modern French. Anything written after 1650 is easy to understand by the average French person and anything written after 1800 is indistinguishable from how French is written nowadays.
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#37Okay I’ll bite. The essay on raising children piqued my interest. The first two paragraphs: > I never yet saw that father, but let his son be never so decrepit or deformed, would not, notwithstanding, own him: not, nevertheless, if he were not totally besotted, and blinded with his paternal affection, that he did not well enough discern his defects: but that with all defaults, he was still his. Just so, I see better…
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#38What if a boxer learns some sort of visual prompt injections to increase the hit rate. Like punching past people a heads
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#39Monsieur de Montaigne’s observations are highly above the average as concerns wealthy people advising everyone what to do with a nobleman’s time and resources. As a new magistrate or nobleman it’s a decent place to start winding up with something better than a Tesla and a Substack advising people how to inherit a monopoly. But for us plebs, it’s about as compelling as any other bunch of dandies on a tennis court.
Hard disagree. His thoughts are so rich and varied that it's harsh to classify them under "blogs for wealthy people". He speaks about death, self worth, many other things that speak to anyone.
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#40Okay I’ll bite. The essay on raising children piqued my interest. The first two paragraphs: > I never yet saw that father, but let his son be never so decrepit or deformed, would not, notwithstanding, own him: not, nevertheless, if he were not totally besotted, and blinded with his paternal affection, that he did not well enough discern his defects: but that with all defaults, he was still his. Just so, I see better…
I disagree. This sucks.
It is like repainting La Joconde