Montaigne

Montaigne, who has often been seen as more of a Skeptic than a Stoic, was deeply influenced both by the style and format of Seneca’s work, especially by the meandering, personal mode of the Letters to Lucilius. The modern genre of the “essay” (leading from Montaigne to Robert Burton, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Browne to the great eighteenth-century

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