Quotes about Montaigne

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The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful — the best occupations are the least forced.
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful — the best occupations are the least forced.
A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dis — Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dis — Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Let us give Nature a chance — she knows her business better than we do.
Let us give Nature a chance — she knows her business better than we do.
He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, — Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, — Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the co — Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the co — Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
No man is exempt from saying silly things — the mischief is to say them deliberately.
No man is exempt from saying silly things — the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Works
Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Works
Retire within yourselves — but first prepare yourselves to receive yourselves there. It would be madness to trust yourselves to yourselves if you do not know how to control yourselves. There are ways of failing in solitude as well as in company.
Retire within yourselves — but first prepare yourselves to receive yourselves there. It would be madness to trust yourselves to yourselves if you do not know how to control yourselves. There are ways of failing in solitude as well as in company.
As for dying we can only assay that once — we are all apprentices when it comes to that
As for dying we can only assay that once — we are all apprentices when it comes to that
Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery. — Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery. — Michel de Montaigne