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.
Michel de MontaigneStichwörter: nature death-and-dying
In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it, such as the philosopher Herillus, who find in it the sovereign good and think it has the power to make us wise and happy.
Michel de MontaigneEach man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.
Michel de MontaigneStichwörter: international cultural-differences
READER,
You have here an honest book; it does at the outset forewarn You that, in contriving the same, I have proposed to myself no other than a domestic and private end: I have had no consideration at all either to Your service or to my glory.
My powers are not capable of any such design.
I have dedicated it to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends, so that, having lost me (which they must do shortly), they may therein recover some traits of my conditions and humours, and by that means preserve more whole, and more life-like, the knowledge they had of me.
Had my intention been to seek the world's favour, I should surely have adorned myself with borrowed beauties: I desire therein to be viewed as I appear in mine own genuine, simple, and ordinary manner, without study and artifice: for it is myself I paint.
My defects are therein to be read to the life, and any imperfections and my natural form, so far as public reverence hath permitted me. If I had lived among those nations, which (they say) yet dwell under the sweet liberty of nature's primitive laws, I assure thee I would most willingly have painted myself quite fully and quite naked.
Thus, reader, myself am the matter of my book: there's no reason You should employ Your leisure about so frivolous and vain a subject.
Therefore farewell.
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 MontaigneStichwörter: michel-de-montaigne essais
The man who establishes his argument by noise and command knows that his reason is weak.
Michel de MontaigneStichwörter: philosophical-quotations
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.es
Michel de MontaigneNo wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de MontaigneNão há nada tão belo e legítimo quanto ser um homem de forma boa e adequada, nem conhecimento tão difícil de adquirir quanto o conhecimento de como viver esta vida bem e com naturalidade; e a mais bárbara de nossas doenças é desprezar o nosso ser.
Michel de MontaigneStichwörter: filosofia
The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death.
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