Nassim Taleb mentioned Essais by Michel de Montaigne 5 times

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Essais by Michel de Montaigne

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  1. ILIAD MONTAIGNE NO NEWSPAPERS That's sufficient

    — Nassim Taleb

    2019-05-16 on twitter.com
  2. 3- Current bibles: The Bible, Wealth of Nations, Das Kapital, Works by Aquinas, Montaigne, etc. They fail editorial criteria. Editors don't understand books, Academics don't get scholarship. Why?@rorysutherland : employees' objective is minimizing blame in case of failure.

    — Nassim Taleb

    2018-12-07 on twitter.com
  3. Read stuff in translation, but it's more honest to work w/bilingual versions: Montaigne is now even translated from Medieval to Modern French (which was a no-no in my childhood). The more organic the language, the more it changes. Arabic & Syriac are same across millennia.

    — Nassim Taleb

    2018-10-28 on twitter.com
  4. Read the texts themselves: Seneca, Caesar, or Marcus Aurelius, when possible. Or read commentators on the classics who were doers themselves, such as Montaigne—people who at some point had some skin in the game, then retired to write books. Avoid the intermediary, when possible.

    — Nassim Taleb

    2017-12-28 in Skin in the Game

  5. 5 additional books I recommended pic.twitter.com/hhRW6Kabtg

    — Nassim Taleb

    2016-12-10 on twitter.com