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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer QUOTES

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer QUOTES

81 " He can say surprising things: a lot has changed since Montaigne was born, almost half a millennium ago, and neither manners nor beliefs are always still recognizable. Yet to read Montaigne is to experience a series of shocks of familiarity, which make the centuries between him and the twenty-first-century reader collapse to nothing. "

― Sarah Bakewell , How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

82 " In 1452, Leon Battista Alberti recommended in his De re aedificatoria (On Building), “The husband and wife must have separate bedrooms, not only to ensure that the husband be not disturbed by his wife, when she is about to give birth or is ill, but also to allow them, even in summer, an uninterrupted night’s sleep. "

― Sarah Bakewell , How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer