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We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

Michel de Montaigne
Real, Solitude, Liberty
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.177, Stanford University Press

Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

Michel de Montaigne
Hurt, Soul, Mistress
Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.145

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

Michel de Montaigne
Philosophy, Secret, Attention
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

Michel de Montaigne
Hopeful, Valiant, Faculty
Michel de Montaigne (1934). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne ...”

I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book.

Michel de Montaigne
Book, Ink And Paper, Design
"Essays". Book by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Chapter XII; in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" (1922), p. 653-54, 1595.

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

Michel de Montaigne
Lying, Mountain, Kind

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Michel de Montaigne
Life, Lying, Men
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.67, Stanford University Press

If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.

Michel de Montaigne
Truth, Self, Talking

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

Michel de Montaigne
Trust, Truth, Taken
Michel de Montaigne (1603). “Essayes”

Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.

Michel de Montaigne
Philosophy, Reality, Squares

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

Michel de Montaigne
Accustomed, Barbarity

The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.

Michel de Montaigne
Judgement, Lightning, Doe
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.171, Stanford University Press

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

Michel de Montaigne
Rocks, Egypt, Pyramids
Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

Michel de Montaigne
Horse, Teaching, Leaving

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Michel de Montaigne
Happiness, Wisdom, Excess
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays:”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

We cannot fail in following nature.

Michel de Montaigne
Nature, Failing, Following
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1084, 谷月社

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

Michel de Montaigne
Anger, Hands, Long
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.540, Stanford University Press

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

Michel de Montaigne
Men, People, Appearance

Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.

Michel de Montaigne
Would Be, Said, Folly
Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The Essays of Montaigne”

It needs courage to be afraid.

Michel de Montaigne
Confidence, Needs
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Michel de Montaigne
Life, Past, Complaining
Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.678

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

Michel de Montaigne
Communication, Self, People
Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Michel de Montaigne
Truth, Society, Corruption
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.505, Stanford University Press

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

Michel de Montaigne
Love, Friendship, Fire
Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

Michel de Montaigne
Mind, Environmental, Stewardship

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