Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• 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

• Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mother, Cowardice, Cruelty

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)”, p.683, e-artnow

• It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Family, Mother, Children

• I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mother, Nursing, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.760, Xist Publishing

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