Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Winning

Quotes about: Winning

• To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Character, Winning

  Michel de Montaigne (1948). “Selections from the essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne”

• It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mother, Art, Powerful

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.152, Stanford University Press

• To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Character, Winning

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.14, Stanford University Press

• If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Winning, Doubt

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.365

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