Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Marriage, Ifs

• If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 28, 1595.

• It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Strong, Honesty

• Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Enjoy, Thirst

• Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Heart

• If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Men, Giving

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.256, Xist Publishing

• Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Sports, Nurse

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

• In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.746, Stanford University Press

• I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Fashion, Simple

  Michel de Montaigne (1893). “The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne”

• Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Marriage, Smart

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

• "Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Companionship, Conversation

• In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Desire, Frantic

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

• Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Beautiful, Poetry

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.645, Stanford University Press

• Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Friendship, Fire

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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