Book I, Ch. 14
Essais (1595), Book I
Quotes from book
Essays
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. They were originally written in Middle French and were originally published in the Kingdom of France. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record "some traits of my character and of my humours." The Essays were first published in 1580 and cover a wide range of topics.
“And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.”
Book III, Ch. 5. Upon some Verses of Virgil
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.”
Book III, Ch. 11. Of Cripples
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Book III, Ch. 2
Essais (1595), Book III
Book III, Ch. 13. Of Experience
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“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
Variant: 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
Book I, Ch. 56. Of Prayers
Essais (1595), Book I
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
Book I, Ch. 20
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
Book II, Ch. 16
Essais (1595), Book II
“All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.”
Book III, Ch. 5. Upon some Verses of Virgil
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“The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.”
Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
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