Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• One may be humble out of pride.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.758, Xist Publishing

• Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pride, Two, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

• There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pride, Giving, Inward

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

• Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pride, Littles, Tongue

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.410, 谷月社

• Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spring, Pride, Law

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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