Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Courage

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

• The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cute, Soul, Lost Friendship

• The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Beautiful, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.622, Stanford University Press

• The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beauty, Beautiful, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.894, Delphi Classics

• The soul that has no established aim loses itself

  Michel de Montaigne

  Soul, Aim, Loses

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

• Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Horse, Heart, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.157, Stanford University Press

• My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Home, Soul

• Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

• The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Character, Soul

• I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Struggle, Mean

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

• The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Equality, Soul

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

• Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Greatness, Knowing, Soul

• The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

  Michel de Montaigne

  Soul, Cobblers, Mould

  Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.244

• There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Shining, Soul, Genius

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.132, Courier Corporation

• The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Flying High, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.830, 谷月社

• In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Educational, Book

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

• For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Choices, Soul

• And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Men, People

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

• .. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Determination, Children, Educational

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

• Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Soul, Enough

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

• As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make him understand that confessing an error which he discovers in his own argument even when he alone has noticed it is an act of justice and integrity, which are the main qualities he pursues; stubbornness and rancour are vulgar qualities, visible in common souls whereas to think again, to change one's mind and to give up a bad case on the heat of the argument are rare qualities showing strength and wisdom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving Up, Integrity, Educational

• Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judging, Soul, Matter

• The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Soul, Finest, Variety

• Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pride, Two, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

• It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Soul, Doe, Weight

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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