Quotes from Montaigne

How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

The beautiful souls are they that are unniversal, open, and ready for all things.

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

We are all blockheads.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.

People try to get out of themselves and to escape from the man. This is folly; instead of transforming themselves into angels, they turn into beast; instead of lifting, they degrade themselves. These transcendental humors frighten me, like lofty and inaccessible heights.

If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, 'Because it was he; because it was I.' There is, beyond what I am able to say, I know not what inexplicable and inevitable power that brought on this union.

We need but little learning to live happily.

If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retentiveness.

To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.

Nagy tisztelettel adózom vágyaimnak és hajlamaimnak. Nem szeretem bajjal gyógyítani a bajt; gy?lölöm az olyan orvosságokat, amelyek jobban zaklatnak, mint a betegség. Ha rajtam a vesekÅ' átka és még az az átok is, hogy meg kell tartóztatnom magam az osztrigaevéstÅ'l, két nyavalyát kaptam egy helyett. A betegség az egyik oldalról csíp belénk, a szabály a másikról.

Ä°nsan?n doÄŸuÅŸunu görmekten herkes kaçar ama ölümünü görmeye hep koÅŸa koÅŸa gideriz. Ä°nsan? öldürmek için gün ?????nda, geniÅŸ meydanlar arar?z ama onu yaratmak için karanl?k köÅŸelere gizleniriz.

Eduquer, c'est allumer un feu

For in truth habit is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She establishes in us, little by little, stealthily, the foothold of her authority; but having by this mild and humble beginning settled and planted it with the help of time, she soon uncovers to us a furious and tyrannical face against which we no longer have the liberty of even raising our eyes.

Faccio dire agli altri quello che non posso dire altrettanto bene, sia per insufficienza del mio linguaggio sia per insufficienza del mio sentimento.

If only talking to oneself did not look mad, no day would go by without my being heard growling to myself. - you silly shit!

Sokrates'e birisi için, seyahat onu hiç deÄŸiÅŸtirmedi, demiÅŸler. O da: Gayet tabii, çünkü kendisini de beraber götürmüÅŸtür, demiÅŸ.

Bir amaca baÄŸlanmayan ruh yolunu kaybeder. Çünkü her yerde olmak, hiçbir yerde olmamakt?r.

All is a-swarm with commentaries; of authors there is a dearth.

Nekem megvan a magam külön szótára: akkor múlatom az idÅ't, ha rossz és kellemetlen; ha jó, nem akarom elmúlatni: ízlelem, belékapaszkodom. A rosszon át kell futni, a jóban meg kell pihenni.

We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us?

Kendimizle aram?zdaki fark, bir baÅŸkas?yla aram?zdaki fark kadar büyüktür.