Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Affairs

Quotes about: Affairs

• Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Experience, Littles

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

• It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Soul, Doe, Weight

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

• It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Family, Mother, Children

• 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

• It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Soul, Weight, Littles

  Michel de Montaigne (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.541

• Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Military, Men, Giving

• Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eye, Piercings, Letters

• The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Writing, Affair, Good History

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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