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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
«Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Courage
| Keywords:
arms, legs, stability, valor
«No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
conjecture, conjectures, cowardly, cruel, devout, loyal, perceive, surmise, surmises, uncertain
«Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
feels, good enough, venture, ventured, venturing
«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.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Nature
| Keywords:
adequately, bother, on the spot, spot, The Spot
«Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Learning,
Travel
| Keywords:
All of Us, clarity, confined, confining, customs, enclose, enclosed, encloses, enclosing, end point, farther, imperfection, judgment, judgments, Laws, laws and customs, marvelous, natural law, natural order, natural world, nose, points, points of view, produces, recognize, tempers, traveling, view, weakness, wisely, world view
«The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Soul
| Keywords:
finest, suppleness, The Finest, variety
«Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Wit
| Keywords:
discreetly, possessor, possessors, weapon, wit