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Michel de Montaigne

The Essays of Montaigne — Complete

  • Danny Talbothas quoted10 years ago
    The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted5 years ago
    He afterwards proceeded to the Tyrol, where he was agreeably surprised, after the warnings which he had received, at the very slight inconveniences which he suffered, which gave him occasion to remark that he had all his life distrusted the statements of others respecting foreign countries, each person’s tastes being according to the notions of his native place; and that he had consequently set very little on what he was told beforehand.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted5 years ago
    He also would say that he seemed to himself like those who are reading some pleasant story or some fine book, of which they fear to come to the end: he felt so much pleasure in travelling that he dreaded the moment of arrival at the place where they were to stop for the night
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted5 years ago
    A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is always everywhere the same
  • Alex••has quoted8 years ago
    This is true fame. A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is always everywhere the same.
  • Danny Talbothas quoted10 years ago
    "If it be ill to live in necessity, at least there is no necessity upon a man to live in necessity"
  • Danny Talbothas quoted10 years ago
    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.
  • Danny Talbothas quoted10 years ago
    what we commonly call friends and friendships, are nothing but acquaintance and familiarities,
  • Danny Talbothas quoted10 years ago
    Let the philosophers say what they will, the thing at which we all aim, even in virtue is pleasure.
  • Danny Talbothas quoted10 years ago
    Young and old die upon the same terms; no one departs out of life otherwise than if he had but just before entered into it;
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