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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“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.”

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Michel De Montaigne

Book I, Ch. 20
Attributed

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

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Michel De Montaigne

Book III, Ch. 5
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“The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.”

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Michel De Montaigne livre Essais

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

“Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”

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Michel De Montaigne

Book I, Ch. 25
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays

“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.”

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Michel De Montaigne

Source: The Complete Essays

“A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.”

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Michel De Montaigne livre Essais

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

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”

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Michel De Montaigne

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“Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?"”

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Michel De Montaigne livre Essais

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

“I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.”

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Michel De Montaigne livre Essais

Book III (1595), Ch. 1
Essais (1595), Book III

“Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.”

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Michel De Montaigne livre Essais

Book I, Ch. 1. That Men by various Ways arrive at the same End
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.”

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Michel De Montaigne

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“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”

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Michel De Montaigne

Book III, Ch. 9
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“I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.”

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Michel De Montaigne livre Essais

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

“We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.”

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Book III, Ch. 11. Of Cripples
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”

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Michel De Montaigne

Book II, Ch. 17
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“Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.”

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Michel De Montaigne livre Essais

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

“In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.”

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Michel De Montaigne livre Essais

Book I, Ch. 14
Essais (1595), Book I

“Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.”

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Michel De Montaigne

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“To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.”

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Michel De Montaigne livre Essais

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