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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

French essayist and philosopher

Lived from: 1533 - 1592

Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 10 march 1533 Died: 13 september 1592

  • He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
  • A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
  • He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
  • A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
  • For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
  • In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
  • Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
  • Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
  • I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
  • The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
  • I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
  • There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline.
  • Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
  • 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.
  • Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
  • We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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  • Habit is second nature.
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  • But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
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  • If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
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  • Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.
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  • Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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  • Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
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  • Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
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What are the most famous quotes from Michel Eyquem De Montaigne?

The two most famous quotes from Michel Eyquem De Montaigne are:

  • "Habit is second nature."
  • "But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature."

When did Michel Eyquem De Montaigne live?

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne was born in 1533 and died in the year 1592.