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- “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ” ― Michel de Montaigne.
- “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.” ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays.
- “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays.
- “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.” ― Michel de Montaigne.
- Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face. Michel de Montaigne. Wrinkles, Age, Doe.
- Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience. Michel de Montaigne. Ruins, Taught, Impatience.
- In my opinion, every rich man is a miser. Michel de Montaigne. Men, Opinion, Rich.
- He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying. Michel de Montaigne. Honesty, Memories, Lying.
Feb 6, 2024 · A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. Michel de Montaigne. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden. Michel de Montaigne. Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. "A wise man never loses anything, if he..." - Michel de Montaigne quotes from BrainyQuote.com.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
Most quotations of Montaigne come from the Essaisbut the following have not yet been given definite citation. 1. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. 1.1. Book III, Ch. 5 1. A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can 1. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. 1.1. Book III, Ch. 2...
Sorted alphabetically by author or sourceMontaigne speaks of an “Abecedarian” ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it. The first is the ignorance of those who, not knowing their A-B-C’s, cannot read...From now on, Montaigne would live for himself rather than for duty.He felt ordinary, but knew that the very fact of realizing his ordinariness made him extraordinary.The Charles Cotton translation of some of Montaigne's essays:The complete, searchable text of the Villey-Saulnier editionfrom the ARFTL project at the University of Chicago (French)The Montaigne Studies Journalat the University of ChicagoMar 11, 2021 · ― Michel de Montaigne. 66. “I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.” ― Michel de Montaigne. 67. “A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.” ― Michel de Montaigne. 68. “The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.”
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