Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Office

Quotes about: Office

• Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Office, Bees, Insects

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.477, 谷月社

• We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Office, Affection

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.220, Delphi Classics

• 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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