Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 23

• We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sleep, Clouds, Waking

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

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• Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fear, Suffering

  Michel de Montaigne (1902). “Essayes”

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• Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Practice, Diversity, May

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• It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strong, Kings, Light

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• Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

  Michel de Montaigne

  Drinking, Giving, Leisure

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• In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Desire, Frantic

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Art, Teaching

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are rooted in a strong and anchored in a powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies, which diverts us here and there.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Forgiveness, Strong, Powerful

  "Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".

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• All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Passion, Suffering, Moderates

  Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.4

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• No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Acquisition, Way

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.351, Delphi Classics

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• It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Imagination, People, Miracle

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.70, Stanford University Press

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• What a man hates, he takes seriously.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hate, Men

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

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• He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fall, Fighting, Knees

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• If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Nature, Should

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mind, Depth, Movement

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.273, Stanford University Press

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• Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Light, Practice, Diversity

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.239, Stanford University Press

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• The whole idea we have for their chastity is ridiculous. They would have to become numb and invisible to please us. I don't know whether the exploits of Alexander and Caesar really surpass the resolution of a beautiful young woman, bred up in the light and commerce of our society, who still keeps herself whole. There is no doing so hard as not doing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Ideas, Light

  Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”

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• 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

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• The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Land, Stranger, Natural

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• Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

  Michel de Montaigne

  May, Vexation, Stills

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• The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Circumstances, Plans, Depends

  Michel de Montaigne (1949). “Selected Essays: The Charles Cotton - W.C. Hazlitt Translation, Rev. and Edited, with an Introd”

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• That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Storm, Calling, Helping

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

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• There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fear, Passion, Worry

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.208, Stanford University Press

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• 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Giving, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.282, 谷月社

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• Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, May, Virtue

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.317

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