Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Pleasure, Avoided

  Michel de Montaigne, James Hain Friswell (1866). “Essays by Montaigne. [A selection.] Edited, compared, revised, and annotated by the Author of “The Gentle Life” [J. H. Friswell].”, p.318

• 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Giving, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.282, 谷月社

• When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Iron, Alliances

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.838, Stanford University Press

• Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Emotion, Pleasure

• Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Suicide, Pain, Complaining

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

• A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Men, May

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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