Jim’s Reviews > How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer > Status Update
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In one famous passage [Montaigne] mused, "When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?" And he added in another version of the text: "We entertain each other with reciprocal monkey tricks. If I have my time to begin or to refuse, so has she hers."
— Jan 05, 2018 07:45PM
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Nearby, in Vitry-le-Francois, he was regaled with stories about seven or eight girls in the area who had plotted together to dress and live as men. One married a woman and lived with her for several months—"to her satisfaction, so they say"—until someone reported the case to the authorities and she was hanged.
— Jan 08, 2018 09:20PM
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"Forget much of what you learn" and "Be slow-witted" became two of Montaigne's best answers to the question of how to live. They freed him to think wisely rather than glibly; they allowed him to avoid the fantastical notions and foolish deceptions that ensnared other people; and they let him follow his own thoughts wherever they led--which was all he really wanted to do.
— Jan 04, 2018 10:09PM
