Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Equality, Soul

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

• Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sky, Weather, Clothes

  "Complete Essays".

• The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Fall, Reason

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

• We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Snow, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Carew Hazlitt (1910). “Essays of Montaigne, tr. by C. Cotton; rev. by W. C. Hazlett [!”

• My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Art, Knowledge

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

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