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Letter "M" » Michel de Montaigne Quotes
«In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
blunder, curricula, curriculum, prank, pranks, table talk
«My trade and art is to live.»
«My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
haven, havens, resting, rest home, retreat, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
Good poem, indifferent, poem
«Satiety comes of too frequent repetition; and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Drinking
| Keywords:
frequent, repetition, satiety, thirsty
«Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come - to them, their wives, their children, their friends - cathcing them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries what fury, what despair!»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Death,
Despair
| Keywords:
cries, dance of death, fury, overwhelm, storms, trot, trots, trotted, Trotting, unawares, unprepared
«All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.»
«To philosophise is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.»
«We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it»
«Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me»
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