Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Depression, Running, Book

  Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”

• The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, School, World

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.952, 谷月社

• We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sports, Running, Children

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.416, 谷月社

• Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Scolding, Incessant

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton, William Carew Hazlitt (2012). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.157, Courier Corporation

• Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Distance, Men

• Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Time, Men

• To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Kindness, Real

  Michel de Montaigne (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters”, p.93

• If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Book, Ignorant

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

• We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Men, Names

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