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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Michel de Montaigne quotes

French Philosopher, Writer February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592

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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it..."
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. Michel de Montaigne
I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world. Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death."
The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death. Michel de Montaigne
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. Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be..."
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me. Michel de Montaigne
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. Michel de Montaigne
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than..."
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Michel de Montaigne
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. Michel de Montaigne
How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out. Michel de Montaigne
In the year of Christ 1571, at the age of thirty-eight, on the last day of February, anniversary of his birth, Michel de Montaigne, lon weary of the servitude of the court and of public employments, while still entire, retired to the bosom of the learned Virgins [Muses], where in calm and freedom from all cares he will spend what little remains of his life now more than half run out. If the fates permit, he will completethis abode, this sweet ancestral retreat; and he has consecrated it to... Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of..."
There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally. Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by..."
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life. Michel de Montaigne

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