Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Eye, Cities

• I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eye, Wind, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

• The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

  Michel de Montaigne

  New Beginnings, Eye, Should Have

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton, William Carew Hazlitt (2012). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.202, Courier Corporation

• Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dream, Real, Eye

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

• Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humble, School, Eye

• 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

• When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted.... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Horse, Eye

• Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sleep, Eye, Judgment

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.80, Stanford University Press

• If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eye, Voice, Long

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