Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Book, Giving

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.297, Stanford University Press

• Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Riches, Opinion, Glory

• I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Pleasure, Avoided

  Michel de Montaigne, James Hain Friswell (1866). “Essays by Montaigne. [A selection.] Edited, compared, revised, and annotated by the Author of “The Gentle Life” [J. H. Friswell].”, p.318

• Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cat, Hands, Pleasure

  "The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy".

• There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Gratitude, Ambition, Luxury

• There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Communication, Grieving

  Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a”, p.457

• 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Giving, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.282, 谷月社

• There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pride, Giving, Inward

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

• No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Communication, Pleasure, Without Communication

  Michel De Montaigne, James B Atkinson, David Sices (2012). “Selected Essays: With La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

• The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Husband, Distance

• No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Communication, Delight, Pleasure

• Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pleasure, Embrace

• Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Painful, Pleasure, Bottom

  Michel de Montaigne (1701). “An Abstract of the most Curious and Excellent Thoughts in Seigneur de Montaigne's Essays ... Done into English from the French original.Jpp. 227”, p.189

• 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”

• Books are a languid pleasure.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Pleasure

• Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

  Michel de Montaigne

  Drinking, Giving, Leisure

• All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mean, Differences, World

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

• The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Exercise, Boys, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.94

• Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hope, Desire, Infinity

  Michel de Montaigne (1894*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

• We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Greatness, Willpower

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

• Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Exercise, Numbers

  Michel de Montaigne (1894*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

• Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Passion, Ambition, Luxury

• When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Iron, Alliances

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.838, Stanford University Press

• 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

• All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

  Michel de Montaigne

  World, Opinion, Pleasure

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

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