Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

• We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Memories, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.333, Delphi Classics

• Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Health, Men, Sweat

  Michel de Montaigne (1759). “The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English”, p.580

• What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Ignorance, Passion

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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