Michel de Montaigne: Citations en anglais

Michel de Montaigne était écrivain français, philosophe, humaniste, qui fut maire de Bordeaux. Citations en anglais.
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“In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.”

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Michel De Montaigne

Book I, Ch. 9
Attributed

“The participation we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, is not acquired by our own force: God has sufficiently given us to understand that, by the witnesses he has chosen out of the common people, simple and ignorant men, that he has been pleased to employ to instruct us in his admirable secrets. Our faith is not of our own acquiring; 'tis purely the gift of another's bounty: 'tis not by meditation, or by virtue of our own understanding, that we have acquired our religion, but by foreign authority and command wherein the imbecility of our own judgment does more assist us than any force of it; and our blindness more than our clearness of sight: 'tis more by__ the mediation of our ignorance than of our knowledge that we know any thing of the divine wisdom. 'Tis no wonder if our natural and earthly parts cannot conceive that supernatural and heavenly knowledge: let us bring nothing of our own, but obedience and subjection; for, as it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe."”

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Michel De Montaigne livre Essais

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

“The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, nor to dispute; forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor.”

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

“Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.”

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Michel De Montaigne

Book III, Ch. 10
Attributed

“As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.”

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

“For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.”

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Book III, Ch. 13. Of Experience
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.”

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Book I, Ch. 40. Of Good and Evil
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.”

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Book III, Ch. 8. Of the Art of Conversation
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Accustom him to everything, that he may not be a Sir Paris, a carpet-knight, 5 but a sinewy, hardy, and vigorous young man.”

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Book I, Ch. 15. Of the Education of Children
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.”

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

“The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.”

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Book III, Ch. 1. Of Profit and Honesty
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Habit is a second nature.”

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

“God never sends evils”

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

“What know I?”

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Michel De Montaigne livre Essais

or What do I know?
Que sais-je?
The notion of skepticism is most clearly understood by asking this question.
Book II, Ch. 12
Essais (1595), Book II

“My trade and my art is living.”

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Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre.
Book II, Ch. 6
Essais (1595), Book II

“Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.”

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Chaque homme porte la forme, entière de l'humaîne condition.
Book III, Ch. 2
Essais (1595), Book III