Michel de Montaigne Quotes about Heart

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Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.

Michel de Montaigne

Heart, Love Is, Piano

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

Michel de Montaigne

Heart, Yield, Self

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Michel de Montaigne

Horse, Heart, Soul

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.157, Stanford University Press

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

Michel de Montaigne

Heart, Too Much, Injustice

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.849, Stanford University Press

Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Heart

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

Michel de Montaigne

Heart, Eye, Cities