Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 11

• A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Loss

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Essays, Of Solitude, 1922.

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• No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Silly, Men, Belief

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 1, 1595.

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• Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Marriage, Smart

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hypocrisy, Preacher, Sermons

  "The Essays of Michel de Montaigne".

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• Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sensuality, Temperance, Seasoning

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• The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Study, Profit

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Science, Men, Proud

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.518

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• Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Character, Doors, Example

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humble, School, Eye

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• Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Companionship, Herds, Creatures

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• The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Birth, Wells

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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• Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Powerful, Meditation, Taste

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.955, Xist Publishing

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• ... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Charity, Belief

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.786, Stanford University Press

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• Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Political, Vices, Made

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• There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Doing Good, Rejoice, Gratification

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.612, Stanford University Press

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• Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Powerful, Meditation, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Practice, Waiting

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Travel, Journey, Men

  "Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".

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• Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Truth, Firsts, Common

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)”, p.217, e-artnow

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• I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Struggle, Mean

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spring, Simple, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.511, 谷月社

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• The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Courage, Navy, Virtue

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Giving, Enjoy Life

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• Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honor, Persons, Loses

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

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• We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Giving, Evil

  Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.531

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