What do you guys think of the French Moralists? I learned about

You know where you go through phases where there's a certain writer you especially look up to or their ideas resonate with you more than most?For example when I was a teenager I really latched on to Thoreau and then it was Dostoevsky, and then Camus, then Nietzsche.

Right now Montaigne is that author for me.

I've always liked the respect big N had for Montaigne

>>8402306

La Rouchefoucauld is the tits.

>>8402352
You remind me of this quote from The Trouble with Being Born by Cioran.
"Montaigne, a sage, has had no posterity. Rousseau, an hysteric still stirs nations. I like only the thinkers who have inspired no tribune of the people"

>>8402501
Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld and Pascal don't get nearly the attention they deserve outside the French speaking world.