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“At the very beginning of my fevers and sicknesses that cast me down, whilst still entire, and but little, disordered in health, I reconcile myself to Almighty God by the last Christian, offices, and find myself by so doing less oppressed and more easy, and have got, methinks, so much the better of my disease. And I have yet less need of a notary or counsellor than of a physician.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 9
Essais (1595), Book III

“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”

Michel De Montaigne

Book I, Ch. 39
Attributed
Variant: There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

“Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?”

Michel De Montaigne

Book II, Ch. 12
Attributed

“I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 12. Of Physiognomy
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 36. Of the most Excellent Men
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.”

Michel De Montaigne

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“In this present that God has made us, there is nothing unworthy our care; we stand accountable for it even to a hair; and is it not a commission to man, to conduct man according to his condition; 'tis express, plain, and the very principal one, and the Creator has seriously and strictly prescribed it to us. Authority has power only to work in regard to matters of common judgment, and is of more weight in a foreign language; therefore let us again charge at it in this place”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 13
Essais (1595), Book III

“Observe, observe perpetually.”

Michel De Montaigne

Attributed

“A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can”

Michel De Montaigne

Attributed

“It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 3. A Usage of the Island of Cea http://books.google.com/books?id=eQt-AAAAIAAJ&q=&quot;It+is+the+part+of+cowardice+not+of+courage+to+go+and+crouch+in+a+hole+under+a+massive+tomb+to+avoid+the+blows+of+fortune&quot; <br class="br">Essais (1595), Book II

“It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude…. The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 12
Essais (1595), Book II

“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.”

Michel De Montaigne

Book II, Ch. 13
Attributed

“It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.”

Michel De Montaigne

Variants: It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Book I, Ch. 23
Attributed

“All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book I, Ch. 2. Of Sorrow
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.”

Michel De Montaigne

Book II, Ch. 12
Attributed

“Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Whatever can be done another day can be done today.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I

“T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 7. Of the Inconveniences of Greatness
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 13
Essais (1595), Book III

“We are no nearer heaven on the top of Mount Cenis than at the bottom of the sea; take the distance with your astrolabe. They debase God even to the carnal knowledge of women, to so many times, and so many generations.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 12
Essais (1595), Book II