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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

Michel de Montaigne
War, Home, Soul

In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

Michel de Montaigne
War, Book, Exercise
"The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne".

It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

Michel de Montaigne
War, Victory, Ends

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Michel de Montaigne
War, Equality, Soul
"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

Michel de Montaigne
War, Civil War

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

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

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

Michel de Montaigne
War, Ambition, Ambitious

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

Michel de Montaigne
War, Flying High, Soul
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.830, 谷月社

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

Michel de Montaigne
Kings, War, Medieval War
Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.730

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