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Michel de Montaigne

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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.


— Michel de Montaigne


#nature

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me.


— Michel de Montaigne


#michel-de-montaigne #love

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.


— Michel de Montaigne


#life

If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.


— Michel de Montaigne


#faith #god #men #truth #veracity

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.


— Michel de Montaigne


#business

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.


— Michel de Montaigne


#life #occupation #soul #wisdom #work

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.


— Michel de Montaigne


#adequately #bother #die #fully #head

We need but little learning to live happily.


— Michel de Montaigne


#learning #life #life

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.


— Michel de Montaigne


#patience #experience

We should tend our freedom wisely.


— Michel de Montaigne


#freedom






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Did you know about Michel de Montaigne?

The same rule applied to his mother father and servants who were obliged to use only Latin words he himself employed and thus acquired a knowledge of the very language his tutor taught him. That is what Montaigne did and that is why he is the hero of this book. His maternal grandfather Pedro Lopez from Zaragoza was from a wealthy Marrano (Sephardic Jewish) family who had converted to Catholicism.

He is most famously known for his skeptical remark 'Que sçay-je?' ('What do I know?' in Middle French; modern French Que sais-je?). Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (French: [miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ]; February 28 1533 – September 13 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and commonly thought of as the father of modern skepticism. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers the world over including René DescartesBlaise Pascal Jean-Jacques Rousseau William HazlittRalph Waldo Emerson Friedrich Nietzsche Stefan Zweig Eric HofferIsaac Asimov and possibly on the later works of William Shakespeare.

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