That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die (1580)

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"Build yourselves a wall of ships!" said the Oracle!

So THAT'S the guy who's responsible for making us write all those essays in school.

Ironically Montaigne is best known for his writings on happiness, but also for writings on flatulence and other such topics.

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"Build yourselves a wall of ships!" said the Oracle!

Post the flatulence essay.

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"That sphincter which serves to discharge our stomachs has dilations and contractions proper to itself, independent of our wishes or even opposed to them."

Montaigne heard of a man who knew how to fart at will, and on occasion arranged a sequence of farts to rhyme with poetry, but such mastery did not contravene his observation that our bodies generally have the upper hand over our minds, and that the sphincter is "most indiscreet and disorderly." Montaigne even heard a tragic case of one behind, "so stormy and churlish that it has obliged its master to fart forth wind constantly and unremittingly for forty years and is thus bringing him to his death."

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"Build yourselves a wall of ships!" said the Oracle!

LOL!

You don't want to be eating dinner with that guy every night.