Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Mirrors, Views

  "The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics". Book by John Brinckerhoff Jackson, p. 4, 1980.

• Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, World, Speech

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.392, Stanford University Press

• Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Weakness, Wickedness

• The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Perfect, Soul, Weakness

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

• I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Weakness, Use

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

• Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Ambition, Wish

  Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

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