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Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 27

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1269, Delphi Classics

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.128, Stanford University Press

My trade and art is to live.

Michel de Montaigne, Marvin Lowenthal (1999). “The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions”, p.134, David R. Godine Publisher

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.68, Courier Corporation

We have power over nothing except our will.

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.763, Stanford University Press

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

Michel de Montaigne (1711). “Essays in 3 Books”, p.124

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

Michel de Montaigne (1907). “The Essays”

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.458, 谷月社

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Michel de Montaigne (2014). “Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection”, New York Review of Books