The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Monday, June 24, 2024

Tidbits from Montaigne 64


It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other. 

—Michel de Montaigne, Essays 3.13 

IMAGE: Carl Schleicher, An Argument over the Talmud (c. 1860) 



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