Xu Yuanchong recommended the translation, Ji Xianlin and Zhou Guoping introduced, through more than 400 years of life wisdom and philosophy of life, opening a precedent for essay writing.
The Complete Works of Montaigne's Essays consists of 107 chapters, all of which are about one million words, and the length of each chapter is different, and the structure is sparse and natural. With his special keen perception, Montaigne recorded his intellectual and spiritual development process, leaving an extremely valuable spiritual wealth for future generations. For more than four hundred years, history has proved that Montaigne was an immortal figure like great writers such as Bacon and Shakespeare. His works are the sum of various currents of thought and knowledge of the sixteenth century after analysis, known as the "philosophy of life", occupying an important position in the history of French prose, and setting a precedent for essay-style works.
The Complete Works of Montaigne's Essays by Yilin Publishing House is the first full translation of Montaigne's essays in China, which allows Chinese readers to know Montaigne and this classic masterpiece that has set a precedent for essay works. The translators of this translation are of a high standard, well-educated, renowned, rigorous and beautiful, and trustworthy.
--Xu Yuanchong
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I believe that the hardest thing for people to do is to be consistent, and the easiest thing to do is to be fickle. We are not walking, but drifting; held hostage by the river, sometimes calm, sometimes violent, depending on the rise and fall of the tide.
Quoted from Volume II, Chapter I