Michel de Montaigne Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c”, p.92

• 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

• 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.

• 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 my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Book, Exercise

  "The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne".

• We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Ambition, Ambitious

• Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, War, Medieval War

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.730

• The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Fall, Reason

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

• It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Victory, Ends

• A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Civil War

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