It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Montaigne says somewhere that in early youth the joy of life lies in the feet.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Montaigne: “Religion’s surest foundation is the contempt for life.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Montaigne said three hundred years ago, ‘Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137 (from Montaigne, On sadness)” — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“De Montaigne described marriage as much like a cage full of birds, where the unmarried struggle to get in and the married… — Fiona Paul Copy Share Image
“It is true: Montaigne achieved little else in his life aside from posing the question: “How should I live?” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Denemeler (Montaigne) - Your Highlight at location 363-363 | Added on Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:28:58 Yasalar doğru oldukları için değil yasa… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Montaigne is the sworn enemy of all responsibility. He strives to dodge decisions. Solitary sage in a time of mass fanaticism, he… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“He is at one and the same time all and nothing, always different and yet ever the same, the Montaigne of 1550,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“The trick is to maintain a kind of naïve amazement at each instant of experience - but, as Montaigne learned, one of… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
“The Spanish had butchered the Indians with a clean conscience because they were confident that they knew what a normal human being… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
“In Montaigne’s redrawn portrait of the adequate, semi-rational human being, it is possible to speak no Greek, fart, change one’s mind after… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
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