This writer relates how a tyrant named Archias deferred opening a letter detailing a plot to kill him by saying, "Tomorrow is a new day," in an argument in favor of curiosity. Quotations like, "To eve
This writer relates how a tyrant named Archias deferred opening a letter detailing a plot to kill him by saying, "Tomorrow is a new day," in an argument in favor of curiosity. Quotations like, "To every opinion an opinion of equal weight is opposed" are inscribed on the beams of a tower in which this man wrote. This man's father Pierre Eyquem tasked him with translating a Catalan monk's Natural Theology. This man wrote such lines as, "I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself," and, "What do I know?" That motto is in "The Apology for Raymond Sebond," which was one of this man's "attempts" that popularized an argumentative genre of writing. For 10 points, name this sixteenth-century French author of the Essays.