One of my [Brian's] favorite readings in this course is the essay On Coaches by Michel de Montaigne. Unlike other personal finance courses, this course requires students to read excerpts from the works of philosophers on topics such as wealth, greed, self-interest and other finance-related topics. Introduction “Of Cannibals” is an essay by French humanist writer Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592). Plot Summary. Montaigne: Selected Essays comes from the pen of Michel de Montaigne, a 16th-century French jurist, advisor, and diplomat whose many adventures would make a compelling autobiography. As near as I can tell, this is Montaigne’s progression in Of coaches (pp. Some ancient kings and emperors sure used some strange and extravagant means of conveying their coaches. At every turn of a corner, there is desolation triggered from humanity's sidetracked views of what the world is about. The world is a place of chaos nowadays.

831-849): I don’t like riding in coaches; I’m much more comfortable on horseback. Monday Morning Montaigne: Of coaches. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was a skeptical philosopher and perhaps the most influential writer of the French Renaissance. Instead, Montaigne writes a series of short works that examine his innermost thoughts and feelings, attitudes and beliefs, preferences and daily habits. With all this deception and superficiality, pureness in the human soul seems almost non-existent.