Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Reputation

Quotes about: Reputation

• How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Honor, Youth

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.113, Courier Corporation

• How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Survival, Reputation

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

• Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Wife, World

• If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Shine Bright, Shining, Honor

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

• Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Doe, Coins, Useless

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.262, 谷月社

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