Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Ties, Tree

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.115

• The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Life, Humanity

• 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

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