# How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing

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- Book: [How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing](https://www.bookquiver.com/montaigne/how-we-weep-and-laugh-at-the-same-thing) ([How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/montaigne/how-we-weep-and-laugh-at-the-same-thing.md))
- Authors: [Michel de Montaigne](https://www.bookquiver.com/montaigne)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4139-723-8
- Published: 2015-02-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' Glittering essays by the Renaissance master of the form, exploring contradictions in human thoughts and actions.