“Working Notes of a Practising Neo-Generalist (#16) — On Montaigne and how to remember the books you read” (Mark Storm)

MEDIUM, April 3, 2018 On the ceiling beams of the Tower where he wrote his famous Essais, Montaigne had sayings carved into the wood; Latin and Greek quotes from the classical authors to inspire him. One of these is from Pliny the Elder (Naturalis Historia, ii. 7): “Solum certum nihil esse certi et homine nihil miserius aut superbius”…

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