Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Glory

Quotes about: Glory

• 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

• 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?

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  Men, Honor, Youth

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

• Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Riches, Opinion, Glory

• Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

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  Glory, Repose

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.49, Courier Corporation

• The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

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  Would Be, Way, Glory

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.830, 谷月社

• Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

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  Two, Littles, Glory

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.668, 谷月社

• He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

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  Shadow, Body, Firsts

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.366

• The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.

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  Mean, Vigor, Way

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.29

• Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Doe, Coins, Useless

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.262, 谷月社

• Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Solitude, Mind

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