Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Respect

Quotes about: Respect

• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Self Esteem, Being Alone

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.178, Stanford University Press

• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Acceptance, Self Reliance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 16, 1595.

• The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Honor, Royalty

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Ties, Tree

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.115

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