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"That such a man has written, through this the desire to live on this earth has been increased", wrote Friedrich Nietzsche about the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. Montaigne's famous Essais are
here, translated by Hans Stilett, in their entirety. "I am one of those who are most immune to this emotion, and I neither love nor respect it, even though the whole world has set its mind, as if by agreement, to honour it primarily with its benevolence. Wisdom, virtue and conscience are draped with it - what a silly and repulsive outfit! The Italians have more appropriately baptized wretchedness in the name of tristizia; and indeed sadness is always harmful, always perverse, and since, moreover, it is always cowardly and base, the Stoics forbid their wise men to surrender to it. Of course, auc.
Book type | Humanities book |
Language | German |
Item number | 7103615 |
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Release date | 6/17/2016 |
Book type | Humanities book |
Language | German |
Author | Michel de Montaigne |
Year | 2016 |
Number of pages | 576 |
Edition | 9 |
Book cover | Hard cover |
Height | 54 mm |
Width | 220 mm |
Weight | 2153 g |
Length | 31.80 cm |
Width | 23.70 cm |
Height | 5.30 cm |
Weight | 2.16 kg |
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