Цитаты из книги автора Michel de Montaigne The Essays of Montaigne — Complete

This is true fame. A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is always everywhere the same.

But he desired to leave France, nay, and the world, something to be remembered by, something which should tell what kind of a man he was — what he felt, thought, suffered — and he succeeded immeasurably, I apprehend, beyond his expectations.