Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Military, Exercise

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

• There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Men, Law

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

• Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Physicians, Lawyer

• Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Men, Practice

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.152, Stanford University Press

• [I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Strong, Memories

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.239, Delphi Classics

• Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Giving, Titles

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.228, 谷月社

• An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Honesty, Exercise

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