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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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  • All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
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  • Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
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  • The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
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  • The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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  • The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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  • There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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  • There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.
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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:

  • "All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me."
  • "Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom."

When did Michel Eyquem De Montaigne live?

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