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Montaigne on Being Curious (About Yourself)

Perennial Meditations (Vol. 1)

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Montaigne on Being Curious

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

— Montaigne, Essays

Michel de Montaigne, the 16th-century French essayist, spent a lifetime writing about one subject: himself, not in the narcissistic sense, but in a spirit of inquiry.

He believed that by honestly studying his own thoughts, contradictions, habits, and fears, he could learn something useful.

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