Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Strong, Honesty

• Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Revenge, Criticism, Critics

  "Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays".

• Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Criticism, Scarcity, Commentary

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1093, 谷月社

• We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Criticism, Might, Hours

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.630, Delphi Classics

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