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The Complete Essays QUOTES

1 " The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

2 " I quote others only in order the better to express myself. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

3 " Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

4 " The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

5 " Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

6 " L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

7 " Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

8 " D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

9 " Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

10 " Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

11 " Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

12 " Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

13 " Why do people respect the package rather than the man? "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

14 " It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

15 " Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

16 " All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

17 " Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

18 " Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

19 " We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

20 " Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. "

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays