Towards the end of the first volume of Montaigne essays, there are some clearly unfinished pieces thrown in for reasons I cannot understand. This essay is the worst culprit of that batch—four paragraphs Montaigne lifted from Valerius Maximus, Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus and Seneca that tell instances of leaders eschewing the trappings of leadership and power … Continue reading 52. On the Frugality of the Ancients