Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Kindness, Animal

• Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sweet, Children, Compassion

• It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Feelings, Sharpness, Exceed

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

• One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are rooted in a strong and anchored in a powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies, which diverts us here and there.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Forgiveness, Strong, Powerful

  "Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".

• Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Friendship, Hatred, Judgement

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.823, Stanford University Press

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