Michel de Montaigne: Citations en anglais (Page 11)
Michel de Montaigne était écrivain français, philosophe, humaniste, qui fut maire de Bordeaux. Citations en anglais.“As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.”
Book II, Ch. 37
Essais (1595), Book II
“He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.”
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
Variante: He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
“A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.”
L'homme d'entendement n'a rien perdu, s'il a soi-même.
Book I, Ch. 39
Essais (1595), Book I
“A man may be humble through vainglory.”
Book II, Ch. 17
Essais (1595), Book II
Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.”
Book I, Ch. 14
Essais (1595), Book I
“He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.”
Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Quelle vérité que ces montagnes bornent, qui est mensonge qui se tient au delà?
Book II, Ch. 12
Essais (1595), Book II
“The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.”
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
“All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.”
Book III, Ch. 5. Upon some Verses of Virgil
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Book I, Ch. 26
Attributed
Variante: The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
As quoted in The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne (1877) edited by William Carew Hazlitt, p. 289
“The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.”
Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)