Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Looks, Quiet, Life Is

• How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Honor, Youth

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.113, Courier Corporation

• Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Quiet, Tranquility, Fame

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39

• The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Names, Mouths, Fame

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.529

• We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Speak, Fame

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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