Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Honor

Quotes about: Honor

• The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Honor, Royalty

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• 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

• The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honor, Victory, Difficulty

• It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mother, Art, Powerful

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.152, Stanford University Press

• Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honor, Persons, Loses

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

• To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Honor, Religion

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

• If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Shine Bright, Shining, Honor

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

• I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Moving, Self, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.186, Stanford University Press

• If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, People, Honor

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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