Michel Montaigne is a French writer and philosopher of the Renaissance. His book “Experiments” became not only the main quotation book for the next centuries, but also a source of truly folk wisdom. Montaigne's aphorisms and catchphrases are tests to which he subjects his own opinions on various issues. Education, friendship, parental love, freedom of conscience, duty, power over one’s own destiny - everything is considered from the point of view of personal experience and is supported by vivid quotes, each of which testifies to something personal, intimate, touches the finest strings of the soul...