Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Sleep, Simplicity

• A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Meditation, Solitude

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39

• A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Freedom, Men, Solitude

• We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Real, Solitude, Liberty

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.177, Stanford University Press

• Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Solitude, Made, Capacity

  Michel de Montaigne (1963). “Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings”

• Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Solitude, Mind

• But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Solitude, Lust

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