Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Reading, World

  Michel de Montaigne (1711). “Essays in 3 Books”, p.124

• He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reading, Force, Seems

  Michel de Montaigne (1759). “The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English”, p.330

• And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Reading, Reflection

• I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader
  who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reading, Littles, Inattention

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

• I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Reading, Honest

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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