Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Horse, Heart, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.157, Stanford University Press

• To understand via the heart is not to understand.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart

• I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Eye, Cities

• Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Heart

• Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Heart, Men

• I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Too Much, Injustice

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.849, Stanford University Press

• Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Love Is, Piano

• Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Wine, Elderly

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

• If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Yield, Self

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