How to live life

How to easily integrate into a group of people? How to deal with violence? How to adapt to the loss of a loved one? Such questions are present in the lives of most of us, and all of them are multiple translations of one big question: how do we live? Montaigne wrote free reflections of his thoughts and experiences as no one else had before. After more than four hundred years, people are still attracted to reading him because of his magic and sincerity. Readers seek him out for companionship, wisdom, and entertainment, and also to connect with themselves, and this is what we will find in this inspiring biography. It is a book about loss, not worrying about death, and about love, for "Love is great because it is a secret difficult to understand... if your heart beats with a passion beyond description... go in." And about companionship: "I was born for companionship and friendship," and about affection: "Affection, a small word but with infinite density... contributes to improving people's lives more than compassion, charity, and self-sacrifice." And about the joy of knowledge: "If I find difficulty in reading, I do not bite my nails, but I set aside what I read. I do nothing without joy." It is a book present in every time and place, as has always been said about it for centuries. And today, as we live the madness of crowds rushing behind their fanaticisms, we see it also present: "How much courage and persistence are needed to preserve the self in a time dominated by herd madness?"