Michel Eyquem de Montaigne híres idézetei
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Idézetek az emberekről
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Idézetek a világról
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne idézetek
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne: Idézetek angolul
“Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."”
Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.”
Book III, Ch. 13
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Változat: Of all the infirmities we have, 'tis the most savage to despise our being. (Charles Cotton translation)
Book III, Ch. 13. Of Experience
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?”
Quand je me joue à ma chatte, qui sait si elle passe son temps de moi, plus que je ne fais d'elle.
Book II, Ch. 12
The 1595 edition adds: “We entertain each other with reciprocal monkey tricks. If I have my time to begin or to refuse, so has she hers.” As quoted in Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am https://books.google.it/books?id=y8Drc-QghEIC&pg=PT21, trans. David Wills, Fordham University Press, 2008.
Essais (1595), Book II
“He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.”
Book I, Ch. 42
Essais (1595), Book I
“Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.”
Book II, Ch. 37. Of the Resemblance of Children to their Brothers
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“For a desperate disease a desperate cure.”
Book II, Ch. 3. The Custom of the Isle of Cea
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Book III, Ch. 13. Of Experience
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I want death to find me planting my cabbages.”
Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
“I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.”
Book II, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book II
Változat: I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.
“Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.”
Book II, Ch. 37
Essais (1595), Book II
“Not because Socrates said so,… I look upon all men as my compatriots.”
Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.”
Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d'autant plus me dire.
Book I, Ch. 26
Essais (1595), Book I
Változat: I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Book II, Ch. 37
Essais (1595), Book II
Változat: There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.
“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.”
Book I, Ch. 38. Of Solitude
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Book III, Ch. 4. http://books.google.com/books?id=pXItAAAAMAAJ&q="Non+pudeat+dicere+quod+non+pudet+scntire+Let+no+man+be+ashamed+to+speak+what+he+is+not+ashamed+to+think"&pg=PA57#v=onepage
Essais (1595), Book III
“What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?”
Book III, Ch. 8. Of the Art of Conversation
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.”
Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Book I, Ch. 27. Of Friendship
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne, Chapter III, pg. 24 (Translated by Marvin Lowenthal
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