| 44 Famous Quotes by Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
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“When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he
is a shoemaker.
[Fr., Quand nous veoyons un homme mal chausse, nous disons que ce
n'est pas merveille, s'il est chausstier.]”
Shoemaking Quotes Source: Essays (bk. I, ch. XXIV)
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“To each foot its own shoe.
[Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.]”
Shoemaking Quotes Source: Essays (bk. III, ch. XIII)
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“The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey
of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or
marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform
and mix up into a work all his own.
[Fr., Les abeilles pillotent deca dela les fleurs; mais elles en
font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur; ce n'est plus thym, ny
marjolaine: ainsi les pieces empruntees d'aultruy, il les
transformera et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien.]”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: Essays (bk. I, ch. XXV)
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“Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one,
disguising and altering it for some new service.”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: Essays--Of Physiognomy
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“Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the
place where he chanced to be.”
Worship Quotes Source: Apology for Raimond Sebond, quoting Apollo
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“'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,”
Royalty Quotes Source: Essays--Of the Inconveniences of Greatness
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“Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
[Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]”
Necessity Quotes Source: Essays (bk. I, 47)
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“Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the
crowd of physicians had killed him."”
Medicine Quotes Source: Essays (bk. II, ch. XXXVII)
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“How the Doctor's brow should smile,
Crown'd with wreaths of camomile.”
Medicine Quotes Source: Essays (bk. II, ch. XXXVII)
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“One may be humble out of pride.”
Humility Quotes Source: Of Presumption (bk. II, ch. XVII)
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“How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which
to-day are fables to us!
[Fr., Combien de choses nous servoient heir d'articles de foy,
qui nous sont fables aujourd'hui!]”
Faith Quotes Source: Essays (bk. I, ch. XXVI)
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“How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!”
Reputation Quotes Source: Essays--Of Glory
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“My appetite comes to me while eating.”
Appetite Quotes Source: Essays--Of Vanity (bk. III, ch. IX)
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“Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.”
Boating Quotes Source: Of Profit and Honesty (bk. II, ch. XXIX)
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“The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such
as have only to execute them.
[Fr., C'est une importune garde, du secret des princes, a qui
n'en que faire.]”
Advice Quotes Source: Essays (III, 1)
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“You have your face bare; I am all face.
[Fr., Vous avez bien la face desouverte; moi je suis tout face.]”
Faces Quotes Source: Essays (vol. I, ch XXXV), answer of a naked beggar who was asked whether he was not cold
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“No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it
solemnly.”
Nonsense Quotes Source: Essays (bk. III, ch. I)
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“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
Victory Quotes Source: Of Cannibals (ch. XXX)
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“A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.”
Loss Quotes Source: Essays--Of Solitude
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