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Michel de Montaigne quotes about philosophy
Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
L’utilité du vivre n’est pas en l’espace: elle est en l’usage.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
D’autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
L’honneste est stable et permanent.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
J’accuse toute violence en l’education d’une ame tendre, qu’on dresse pour l’honneur, et la liberté.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l’extreme de tous les vices.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Il n’est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Les naturels sanguinaires à l’endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l’homme quelque instinct à l’inhumanité
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “Either I am much deceived, or by your cheerful and pleasant countenances, you are engaged in no very deep discourse.” To which one of them, Heracleon the Megarean, replied: “ ’Tis for such as are puzzled about inquiring whether the future tense of the verb Ballo be spelt with adouble L, or that hunt after the derivation of the comparatives Cheirou and Beltiou, and the superlatives Cheiriotou and Beliotou, to knit their brows whilst discoursing of their science; but as to philosophical discourses, they always divert and cheer up those that entertain them, and never deject them or make them sad.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Philosophy is doubt.
— Michel de Montaigne
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