La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.
Michel de MontaigneI had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.
Michel de MontaigneQue sçais-je?" (What do I know?)
Michel de MontaigneLearned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Michel de MontaigneTags: wisdom learning philosophy
It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.
Michel de MontaigneBehold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
Michel de MontaigneTags: hands
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
Michel de MontaigneTags: censorship
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de MontaigneTags: reason-education
Il n'est pas de chagrin qu'un livre ne puisse consoler.
Michel de MontaigneI once took pleasure some place in seeing men, through piety, take a vow of ignorance, as of chastity, poverty, penitence. It is also castrating our disorderly appetites, to blunt that cupidity that pricks us on to the study of books, and to deprive the soul of that voluptuous complacency which tickles us with the notion of being learned.
Michel de MontaigneTags: of-physiognomy-ch-8
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