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Quotes from Montaigne, Michel de

Rien n'imprime si vivement quelque chose à notre souvenance que le désir de l'oublier.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
YaÅŸamak için topra??m?z olmayabilir ama ölmek için toprak bulunur nas?l olsa
~ Montaigne, Michel de
There is nothing certain but uncertainty, and nothing more miserable and arrogant than man.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
There is nothing so beautiful and legitimate as to play the man well and properly, no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally; and the most barbarous of our maladies is to despise our being.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
True victory lies in your role in the conflict, not in coming through safely: it consists in the honour of battling bravely not battling through.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. We seek other conditions because we do not understand the use of our own … Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump
~ Montaigne, Michel de
Sólo busco en los libros el gusto que me proporcione un honrado entretenimiento; o, si estudio, solo busco la ciencia que trate del conocimiento de mí mismo y que me instruya en un bien morir y un bien vivir
~ Montaigne, Michel de
I, who make no other profession, find in myself such infinite depth and variety, that what I have learned bears no other fruit than to make me realize how much I still have to learn. To my weakness, so often perceived, I owe my inclination to coolness in my opinions and any hatred for that aggressiveness and quarrelsome arrogance that believes and trusts wholly in itself, a mortal enemy of discipline and truth.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
Los que para con los animales son sanguinarios denuncian su naturaleza propensa a la crueldad.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
La defensa atrae el ataque y la desconfianza la ofensa.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
El desear y el gozar nos llevan al mismo dolor
~ Montaigne, Michel de
Nemo in sese tentat descendere Kimse kendi içine inmeye çal??maz Persius Bense kendi içimde yuvarlan?p gidiyorum.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
We cannot be bound beyond what we are able to perform, by reason that effect and performance are not at all in our power, and that, indeed, we are masters of nothing but the will, in which, by necessity, all the rules and whole duty of mankind are founded and established.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
We so willingly slip the collar of command upon any pretence whatever, and are so ready to usurp upon dominion, every one does so naturally aspire to liberty and power, that no utility derived from the wit or valour of those he employs ought to be so dear to a superior as a downright and sincere obedience. TO obey more upon the account of understanding than of subjection, is to corrupt the office of command.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
Biz her ÅŸeyde birbirimizin yar?s? idik: Åžimdi ben onun pay?n? çalar gibi oluyorum. Her iÅŸte onun yar?s?, ikinci yar?s? olmaya o kadar al??m??t?m ki, ÅŸimdi art?k yar?m bir varl?k gibiyim. Ne yapsam, ne düÅŸünsem onun eksikliÄŸini duyuyorum.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
It is an ill wind that does not blow some good. For example, it is well to be born in a decadent age; for one may obtain a reputation for virtue at a bargain price.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
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 immobilise the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
If I encounter difficulties in reading, I do not gnaw my nails over them; I leave them there. I do nothing without gaiety.
~ Montaigne, Michel de