Quotes from Michel de Montaigne

EÄŸildiÄŸim yere sürükleniveriyorum: a??rl???m beni ondan yana düÅŸürüyormuÅŸ gibi.

Es ar nodomu piejaucu n?vei nedudz r?gtuma, lai, ?emot v?r? t?s pieejam?bu, kav?tu j?s p?r?k alkat?gi un nesapr?t?gi tiekties p?c t?s.

have mixed a little bitterness with it, to the end, that seeing of what convenience it is, you might not too greedily and indiscreetly seek and embrace

Kendi kendimize düzen vermenin ne kadar güç olduÄŸunu biliriz.

ÇizilmiÅŸ bir yolda yürümek ve yaln?z kendi hayat?ndan sorumlu olmak ruh için büyük bir rahatl?kt?r.

Bütün dertlerin bittiÄŸi yere gideceÄŸiz diye dertlenmek ne budalal?k!

Dünyaya geldiÄŸimiz gün bir yandan yaÅŸamaya, bir yandan ölmeye baÅŸlars?n?z.

Ya?ad???n?z her an, hayattan eksilmi?, harcanm?? bir and?r.

quote about goodness Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Hayattan sonra ölümdesiniz; ama hayatta iken ölmektesiniz.

Hayat?n de?eri uzun ya?anmas?nda de?il, iyi ya?anmas?ndad?r.

Doya doya yaÅŸamak y?llar?n çokluÄŸuna deÄŸil, sizin gücünüze baÄŸl?d?r.

Kendini canl? iken ölü göstereni ölü iken canl? görebilir herkes.

Bizim en büyük bildiÄŸimiz ÅŸeyleri, doÄŸan?n o konudaki son s?n?rlar? sayar?z.

Biri ç?k?p bizim düÅŸüncemizin tersini söyledi mi, onun doÄŸru söyleyip söylemediÄŸine deÄŸil, doÄŸru yanl??, kendi düÅŸüncemizi savunmaya bakar?z. Bizi düzeltmek isteyene kollar?m?z? açacak yerde, yumruklar?m?z? s?k?yoruz.

KuÅŸand???m?z z?rhlar?n yüreklerimizi kat?laÅŸt?rmas? hiç de gerekli deÄŸil; s?rt?m?z?n kat?laÅŸmas? yeter.

Le plus grand art: rester soi-même

Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict charge to cure him of a long and inward disease under which he had a great while languished, and observing that, after his cure, he went much more coldly to work than before, he asked him what had so altered and cowed him: "Yourself, sir," replied the other, "by having eased me of the pains that made me weary of my life.

But you do not die because you are sick, you die because you are alive.

El mundo vive engañado: con facilidad mayor se camina por los bordes, donde la extremidad sirve de límite, parada y guía, que por la senda de en medio, amplia y abierta; es más cómodo proceder conforme al arte que según la naturaleza, pero también es menos noble y menos recomendable.

He who had never actually seen a river, the first time he did so took it for the ocean, since we think that the biggest things that we know represent the limits of what Nature can produce in that species.

No lo ocupamos [el pensamiento] en algún tema que lo bride y contenga, se lanza desbocado aquí y allá, por el campo difuso de las imaginaciones (Vol. I, p. 68).

Folly is a bad quality; but not to be able to endure it, to fret and vex at it, as I do, is another sort of disease little less troublesome than folly itself; and is the thing that I will now accuse in myself.

Any instruction which convince people that religious belief alone, without morality, suffices to satisfy God's justice is destructive of all government and is far more harmful than is ingenious and subtle. Men's practices reveal an extraordinary distinction between devotion and sense of right and wrong.