How to Live

Montaigne is the first essayist, a philosopher, an ordinary person. Sarah Bakewell takes a careful look at Montaigne's life and writings in this book and shares her thoughts on the ways Montaigne teaches us to live, with one question and twenty answers, including:

Question everything.
Live moderately.
Be convivial.
Be ordinary and imperfect.

Brilliant, I think. In an ordinary way.

And now I shall attempt to read the essays themselves.